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- Mike Battaglia wrote:
- >
- > This is only half it. For instance, if I want to set-up a keyword that no
- > other keyword can over write (i.e. comments) I can't.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- That's true, but you example fails to convince me that this is a useful thing
- to want to do. The whole point of font-lock mode is that you should not be
- using regexps to match comments. You should be using syntax tables for that
- because it's A: faster, and B: correct rather than approximate.
-
- I still haven't seen any real examples that convince me that font-lock mode
- needs to do something more than it does now. And the reason I'm reluctant
- to put in unnecessary features are because they would slow it down and make
- its syntax even more complicated than it is now.
-
- > if bug exit.
- >
- > and if is also highlighted. Oh what a tangled web...
-
- So the "if" is highlighted and the "exit" is highlighted. You don't need
- to mark "exit" as being highlighted everywhere. What's the problem?
-
- -- Jamie
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