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Re: Font lock question
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Joost Kremers |
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Re: Font lock question |
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Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:09:41 +0100 |
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mu4e 1.5.8; emacs 27.1.91 |
On Wed, Mar 17 2021, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Indeed that won't do what you want. You're going to have to either
> manually loop through all the matches of of aBc within the brackets, or
> use font-lock-keywords's `MATCH-ANCHORED` to do that for you.
Yes, I was afraid of that. I haven't quite figured out how that works... :D I'll
need to find some time to dive into font-lock a bit more.
> But be aware that these approaches still won't work well if the [...]
> thing can span multiple lines.
Hmm, I'm afraid that is indeed possible. Perhaps I'll keep it simple and only
font-lock the `B` part, since it can't contain any spaces and is fairly easy to
do.
Thanks for your reply.
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Joost Kremers
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