Re: Example matcher function for font-lock-keywords?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 02/26/2015 01:28 AM, Alexis wrote:

> Consequently, the syntax table for PicoLisp should designate
> double-quotes as marking a symbol, not a string. This, however, means
> that syntactic highlighting of comments doesn't work properly - for
> example, when the comment character '#' appears inside a transient
> symbol, it /shouldn't/ be treated as a comment character (and the
> remainder of the line following it shouldn't be treated as a comment).

In all likelihood, that means you should implement a 
syntax-propertize-function, which would mark those occurrences of `#' 
with a different syntax class.

For usage examples, you can take a look at js-syntax-propertize and 
ruby-syntax-propertize-function.