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Re: Multiline font lock questions
From: |
David Abrahams |
Subject: |
Re: Multiline font lock questions |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:26:05 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) |
"rgb" <rbielaws@i1.net> writes:
>> * Place a `font-lock-multiline' property on the construct when it is
>> added to the buffer.
>>
>> I don't understand how that can help. If I start with
>>
>> +------------+
>> |This [is |
>> |paragraph 1 |
>> | |
>> |This is |
>> |paragraph] 2|
>> +------------+
>>
>> then presumably nothing is marked with the `font-lock-multiline'
>> property, because there are no multiline constructs. If I then kill
>> the blank line, how is it going to know to start identification at the
>> beginning of the newly-formed paragraph?
>
> Look at the SYNTAX-BEGIN argument of font-lock-defaults.
IIUC that is only for `syntactic fontification,' which apparently
refers just to fontifying comments and strings. Did I misinterpret
the doc?
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com