Re: Regex Problem => "overlapping words"

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Take a look at the place where font-lock-defaults is set.
>> Then look at the docstring of font-lock-defaults.
>> Then locate the SYNTAX-ALIST element and set it so that the character ?-
>> has syntax "w".

>     Thanks Stefan: Below are the two elisp forms that contain the symbol
>     'font-lock-defaults:
>      (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults)
>      (setq font-lock-defaults '(rebol-font-lock-keywords nil nil))

>      ;; there does not appear to be a docstring and there is no
>      ;; symbol syntax-alist (or SYNTAX-ALIST) in the mode file

I must say I don't understand your message.
It seems you managed the first step (finding the place where
font-lock-defaults is set).  Have you managed to do the second step (look
at the docstring of font-lock-defaults)?  What about the third?
     

        Stefan