Re: example of multi-line font-locking

[Le Wang]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

> I asked this question on stackoverflow:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9452615/emacs-is-there-a-clear-example-of-multi-line-fontlocking

> Can anyone point me to an example of how to use the features described in
> the manual?

Which feature?  There are various.

 
This section of the manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Multiline-Font-Lock.html lacks an example that ties it all together, IMO.

Most of the "multiline font locking" features are aimed at solving the
situation were a single font-lock rule can match a chunk of text that
spans several lines (e.g. putting a bold font on text within
"\textbf{...}").

For your case (of highlighting the CSS or _javascript_ part of an HTML
buffer), I think that a "multi-major-mode" approach is more promising,
tho this is an even harder problem to solve than mere multiline
font locking.

I'm sorry.  I realize now that my question was unclear.  I don't want mode specific highlighting within _javascript_/css chunks.  I only want to see that the chunks are there by applying a face with a slightly different background.  So this is simply a problem of multiline font-locking.
 

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Le