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Re: How do I setup an extremely simple font-lock mode?
From: |
Barman Brakjoller |
Subject: |
Re: How do I setup an extremely simple font-lock mode? |
Date: |
23 May 2003 06:50:30 -0700 |
> I want to setup a very simple mode for colorizing a log file. All I
> need to do is highlight any lines with the string ERROR on them. I've
> tried reading the documentation for font-lock but it's not clear how to
> do this.
Maybe this is not exacly what you asked for, but to me it seems as if
it will solve your problem. From the NEWS file, section Emacs 21.1
changes:
*** The new package hi-lock.el provides commands to highlight
matches
of interactively entered regexps. For example,
M-x highlight-regexp RET clearly RET RET
will highlight all occurrences of `clearly' using a yellow
background
face. New occurrences of `clearly' will be highlighted as they are
typed. `M-x unhighlight-regexp RET' will remove the highlighting.
Any existing face can be used for highlighting and a set of
appropriate faces is provided. The regexps can be written into the
current buffer in a form that will be recognized the next time the
corresponding file is read. There are commands to highlight matches
to phrases and to highlight entire lines containing a match.
Hope it works for you!