Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] modify emacs-wiki.el to handle more tags/faces ?

[John Wiegley]

Joe Corneli <address@hidden> writes:

> Would it be possible to modify emacs-wiki.el to accept a bunch of
> user-defined tags in a data-structure as follows?  

I'm not sure if tag highlights are currently enabled in emacs-wiki.
But if they are enabled, it wouldn't be very hard.  Realize, however,
that highlights spanning multiple lines are very hard to get right.

> Would there be a major performance hit?  

There would be some, but perhaps not unmanageable.

> Also, the tags sometimes appear in the <bad>text
> <i>nested</i></bad>. Would this be a problem?

I don't really think so.

But are you sure you need this kind of highlighting?

John