Re: define multi-line comments

[henry atting]

David Hansen wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:51:02 +0200 henry atting wrote:
> [...]

>>
>> Because its only purpose is to highlight direct speech (in my
>> text-mode) it actually works very well.
>
> Are you talking about setting `font-lock-multiline' to `t' and just
> using regexps that may spawn several lines?  If it works for you just
> use it, it will save a lot of trouble.  But be warned, it's not 100%
> accurate.

With `lazy-lock-mode' it works fine. I can use it all the more it has
not to be 100% reliable.

>> Mmh, with `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' I couldn't get very far. I
>> found this in the manual:
>
> If you describe your problems in a bit more detail someone might be able
> to help.

Much more out of curiosity (or to learn a little) I took the following
example from an old php mode library:

(defconst mytext-font-lock-syntactic-keywords
       (list
         '("\\(\%\\)"
       (1 (11 . nil)))
      '("%.*\\([\n]\\)"
       (1 (12 . nil)))
     ))

I expected it to start a comment with `%' and end it on a new line
with `%' But it doesn't work this way. 
So as a result of my poor understanding of elisp it may be complete
nonsense. 


henry