Re: font-lock "=

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Roger Mason <rmason@mun.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to write a major mode for amrita.  My mode is derived from
> fundamental-mode.
>
> One of the operators in the language is "=.  That is, quotation marks
> followed by the equals sign.  This is currently higlighted as a string
> that continues up to the next occurrence of ".  I'd like to turn off
> this behaviour and have the character pair "= not highlighted, or
> highlighted in some other face.
>
> Can someone suggest how to accomplish this?


I do not know how to do it, but maybe you can use the text property
syntax-table on the " in "=.