Eric: i tried with the added backslash but that dosent seem to work as well, would you mind testing the snippet below on your system? is it still something wrong im doing?
Jambunathan: hi-lock-mode looks interesting and i will investigate it soon, is it per file settings, or can you define a word/fg-bg rule that will apply to all files?
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <
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> Xebar Saram <
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> > Thanks Eric , really appreciate the continuous help!
> >
> > i do plan to get into rexeg on the future (i promise :)) but real
> > life now just allow me to allocate time (i started an assistant
> > professor position and time is at a huge premium..).
> >
> > i tried using this as i tried to understand from your email, but i
> > guess im again doing something wrong. shouldn't the below example
> > color "salt", it dosent see to work.
> >
> > ;test
> > (font-lock-add-keywords
> > 'org-mode
> > '(("\b[Ss]alt\\b)" (0 '(:weight ultra-bold :foregroun "#FF9800")
> > t))))
>
> Looks like you're missing a backslash at the beginning of the regexp --
> make sure it reads "\\b...
>
> E
>
> > thank you for all your help
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <
> >
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> >
> > Xebar Saram <
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> >
> > > Hi again all
> > >
> > > i have been using the before discussed font lock with great
> > success
> > > over the past few weeks, thx alot for that tip!
> > >
> > > one short question i have from using it thourhgly is weather
> > its
> > > possible to color specific words , IE not just text bound
> > between
> > > symbols ( ie > !text! ) but rather lets say i always want to
> > make the
> > > word server appear with blue FG. is this possible? currently i
> > tried
> > >
> > > (font-lock-add-keywords
> > > 'org-mode
> > > '(("\\(server[^server\n]+server\\)" (0 '(:foreground "#000000"
> > > :underline t :background "#FF9AEA" :weight ultra-bold) t))))
> >
> > At some point you're definitely going to want to read up on
> > regular
> > expressions!
> >
> > But in the meantime yes, it's entirely (mostly) possible. A
> > regular
> > _expression_ is just a way of finding desired pieces of text in a
> > larger
> > run of text. Think of the regexp as an instruction that starts:
> > "Find
> > all pieces of text that are..."
> >
> > All the special regexp characters are just a way of making the
> > instruction general (_any_ number, four of _any_ character,
> > _anything_
> > that's not a "p").
> >
> > In the most basic case, however, a regexp is simply the text you
> > want to
> > find: "Find all pieces of text that are 'server'". In this case,
> > that's
> > your regexp: "server".
> >
> > The reason regexps are difficult, of course, is that they can't
> > read
> > your mind, and will find things you didn't want, and not find
> > things you
> > did want. So much of messing with regexps is telling them: _yes_
> > this
> > too, _no_ not that. In your case, you'd probably want to put word
> > boundaries around the regexp ("\b" on either side), and find both
> > capitalized and lowercase instances of the word. So your
> > instruction
> > might be:
> >
> > "Find all pieces of text that are 'server' or 'Server', but only
> > as a
> > complete word."
> >
> > Which would look like
> >
> > "\\b[Ss]erver\\b"
> >
> > Give that a shot. You're jumping into the middle of something
> > fairly
> > complicated, so be patient and go slow!
> >
> > E
> >
> > > instead of the original
> > >
> > > (font-lock-add-keywords
> > > 'org-mode
> > > '(("\\(₆[^₆\n]+₆\\)" (0 '(:foreground "#000000" :underline t
> > > :background "#FF9AEA" :weight ultra-bold) t))))
> > >
> > >
> > > again i apologize for my regrex ignorance :)
> > >
> > > best
> > >
> > > Z
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <
> > >
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> > >
> > > Xebar Saram <
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> > >
> > > > thx again Eric
> > > >
> > > > i still have an issue with this when one of the symbols
> > used to
> > > start
> > > > /end the highlight is used in a sentence, for example
> > using
> > > your
> > > > code:
> > > >
> > > > (font-lock-add-keywords
> > > > 'org-mode
> > > > '(("-1-\\([^-1-]+\\)-1-" (0 '(:weight ultra-bold
> > :background "
> > > #
> > > > DDFFDD" :foreground "#000000") t))))
> > > >
> > > > if i write this:
> > > >
> > > > -1- this is a test of 1x1 to show higlight -1-
> > > >
> > > > it will kill the highlight, if i use the same text
> > omitting the
> > > '1'
> > > > it works well, anyway around this issue? i thought it
> > would
> > > have
> > > > matcehd -1- but it seems it matches also just 1 by itself
> > > >
> > > > best wishes and thx again
> > >
> > > Yup, the things inside the [^] construct, to _not_ be
> > matched,
> > > are
> > > treated as a list of single characters. So you're saying
> > > "anything
> > > that's not a '1' or a '-'," but then you've got a '1' in
> > the
> > > middle of
> > > the line. If you want the highlighting to include any
> > character,
> > > but not
> > > span newlines, you could just use [^\n] instead.
> > >
> > > At this point you'll probably want to read the regular
> > _expression_
> > > part
> > > of the manual:
> > >
> > > (elisp) Regular Expressions
> > >
> > > I think you mentioned you don't have a lot of programming
> > > experience.
> > > That's a bit unfortunate, since regexps aren't a great
> > place to
> > > start!
> > > I'd recommend getting something that's "close enough", and
> > not
> > > going
> > > down the rabbit hole of perfect. Then start at the top of
> > the
> > > introduction to elisp...
> > >
> > > Good luck,
> > > Eric
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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