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Re: regexp font-lock highlighting
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Daniel Brockman |
Subject: |
Re: regexp font-lock highlighting |
Date: |
Tue, 31 May 2005 04:45:55 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:
> The recent modification of `lisp-font-lock-keywords-2' to highlight
> subexpressions of regexps has two minor bugs:
[...]
> Finally, I would use three distinct font-lock faces for regexps:
FWIW, I wholeheartedly agree.
> - One face for highlighting the "\\"s which by default should
> inherit from `font-lock-string-face' with a dimmed foreground -
> I'm using Green4 for strings and PaleGreen3 for the "\\"s.
That's exactly what I would like to do.
> Anyone who doesn't like the highlighting could revert to
> `font-lock-string-face'.
> - One face for highlighting the "(", "|" and ")" in these
> expressions. I find `bold' good here but again would leave it to
> the user whether she wants to turn off highlighting this.
> Moreover, such a face could allow paren-highlighting to _never_
> match a paren with that face with a paren with another face.
> Consequently, paren-matching could finally provide more trustable
> information within regular expressions.
That would be awesome.
I'm sorry, I don't have anything to add. I just felt the need to
support this suggestion. I have been thinking along the same lines,
only not as well as Martin has. :-)
--
Daniel Brockman <address@hidden>