Re: Multiline font lock questions

[David Abrahams]

"rgb" <rbielaws@i1.net> writes:

>>    * Place a `font-lock-multiline' property on the construct when it is
>>      added to the buffer.
>>
>> I don't understand how that can help.  If I start with
>>
>> +------------+
>> |This [is    |
>> |paragraph 1 |
>> |            |
>> |This is     |
>> |paragraph] 2|
>> +------------+
>>
>> then presumably nothing is marked with the `font-lock-multiline'
>> property, because there are no multiline constructs.  If I then kill
>> the blank line, how is it going to know to start identification at the
>> beginning of the newly-formed paragraph?
>
> Look at the SYNTAX-BEGIN argument of font-lock-defaults.

IIUC that is only for `syntactic fontification,' which apparently
refers just to fontifying comments and strings.  Did I misinterpret
the doc?
 
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Dave Abrahams
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