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| From: | Glenn Morris |
| Subject: | bug#16525: 24.3; Weird font-lock for multi-line regexp |
| Date: | Thu, 23 Jan 2014 03:30:05 -0500 |
| User-agent: | Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Alex Kost wrote:
> When I try to use a multi-line regexp in `font-lock-keywords', I have an
> unusual result: some lines are highlighted and some are not (lines are
> the same).
[...]
> (defun test-font-lock-keywords ()
> '(("^<\\(foo\\)> \\(.+\\(?:
> .+?\\)\\)\\(\\[.*\\]\\)$"
> (1 'font-lock-function-name-face)
> (2 'font-lock-comment-face)
> (3 'font-lock-string-face))))
It's not that simple. See info node `(elisp)Font Lock Multiline'.
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