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
Z
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net>wrote:
> Xebar Saram <zelt...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Thank you so much Eric
> >
> > that works well apart from as you said it sometime "spills" over to
> > other uneeded lines. any idea of how to limit the number of newlines
> > that
> > the regexp can match?
> >
> > really appreciate the help
>
> The easiest thing would be to add a newline to the list of non-matching
> characters, like this: "\\(♩[^♩\n]+♩\\)". That won't match _anything_
> that goes longer than one line, though -- is that what you want? I'm
> actually not sure how to make the regexp match a specific number of
> newlines without things getting much more complicated...
>
> > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <
> > e...@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> >
> > Xebar Saram <zelt...@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Thank you again
> > >
> > > that works well but i think it dosent cover what i had in org.
> > in org
> > > i use the ♩ symbol to highlight all the text between the 2 ♩,
> > IE
> > >
> > > ♩ALL THIS TEXT IS HIGHLIGHTED♩, currently with the above code
> > the ♩
> > > is highlighted but not the text between, is it possible to do
> > achive
> > > that with font-lock?
> > >
> > > i really appreciate your help!
> > >
> > > z
> >
> > Yup, it's pretty much the exact same thing, just with a different
> > regexp.
> >
> > (font-lock-add-keywords
> > 'org-mode
> > '(("\\(♩[^♩]+♩\\)" (0 '(:weight ultra-bold :background "#
> > FFBF1E") t))))
> >
> > You can use "♩\\([^♩]+\\)♩" instead, if you only want the text
> > between
> > the symbols to be highlighted.
> >
> > It might be a good idea to somehow limit the number of newlines
> > that
> > the regexp can match, I'm not sure.
> >
> > Yours,
> > Eric
> >
> >
>
>
>
