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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:23:03 EST
- From: rwhitby%research.canon.oz.au@lucid.com (Rod Whitby)
- Message-ID: <9301220623.AA29305@bing.research.canon.oz.au>
- Subject: tek-highlight for Lucid Emacs (Was: hilit bug.....)
- Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
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- Sender: help-lucid-emacs-request@lucid.com
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- Mike> It would also seem that no matter what regexp you use, hilit
- Mike> should not freeze. When the end of the buffer is reached and
- Mike> the 'end' regexp is not reached then it should give up. I don't
- Mike> know if you highlight the region or not (if you do it may be
- Mike> easier to find the problem) but, you should not freeze. I have
- Mike> found other regexp that does the same thing. I one case I have
- Mike> no idea where the problem is.
-
- Mike> One other point deals with comments. It seems that there should
- Mike> be a special entry for comments (based on comment-start and
- Mike> comment-end), then all other highlighting should NOT take place
- Mike> in comments.
-
- I'm going to be releasing my tek-highlight package for Lucid Emacs
- soon (there is a stable version for Epoch, and I've just got it to
- highlight a buffer today in Lucid Emacs).
-
- Tek-highlight is like lhilit.el, but allows you to customise all
- features of the faces from X resources, and allows you to have
- arbitrarily complex functions to work out what to highlight. The
- comment highlighting uses the "syntax-decode" package that I
- contributed to the emacs lisp archive, so it can work out what
- comments to highlight in any mode that has a syntax table defined.
-
- I'll be looking for beta-testers if anyone is interested.
-
- Release date should be within two weeks (but don't quote me on that).
-
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