Re: Special hilighting for comments

[Heime]

------- Original Message -------
On Sunday, December 11th, 2022 at 7:24 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> 
wrote:


> On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 06:59:32AM +0000, Heime wrote:
> 
> > ------- Original Message -------
> > On Sunday, December 11th, 2022 at 6:54 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de 
> > tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 02:37:38AM +0000, Heime wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Would you know the problem with the following regexp
> > > > 
> > > > "^;; \\[.+\\].*$"
> > > > 
> > > > It fails to match
> > > > 
> > > > ;; [something] other things
> > > 
> > > Worksforme. At least if the first semicolon is actually at the
> > > start of a line, that is.
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > --
> > > t
> > 
> > Yes it works. I am trying to use subexp in highlight-regexp.
> > To match "^;; \\[.+\\].*$" but highlight only the "\\[.+\\]" part.
> 
> 
> Aha. Read again the documentation string of `hightlight-regexp'.
> Is there any part in there you don't understand? What about
> SUBEXP?

Right.  Have done 

  (highlight-regexp "^;; \\[.+\\].*$" 'elf-face "\\[.+\\]")

which does not get the highlighting.

And the following, also did nothing

  (highlight-regexp "^;; \\[.+\\].*$" 'elf-face "^;; \\[.+\\].*$")