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Re: How to make font lock work with comments?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: How to make font lock work with comments?
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:28:25 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Font locking is a tricky matter. 

> (font-lock-add-keywords nil
>     '(("⍝.*"                          0 font-lock-comment-face prepend)
>      ("[^\\]\"\\([^\"\\]*\\|\\.\\)\"" 0 font-lock-string-face  prepend)))

Bad idea: font-lock normally uses syntax-tables for comments and
strings, so unless you *really* can't make it work with syntax-table,
you shouldn't do it via font-lock-keywords.


        Stefan


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