thx again Eric

i still have an issue with this when one of the symbols used to start/end
the highlight is used in a sentence, for example using your code:

(font-lock-add-keywords
 'org-mode
 '(("-1-\\([^-1-]+\\)-1-" (0 '(:weight ultra-bold :background "#DDFFDD"
:foreground "#000000") t))))

if i write this:

-1- this is a test of 1x1 to show higlight -1-

it will kill the highlight, if i use the same text omitting the '1' it
works well, anyway around this issue? i thought it would have matcehd -1-
but it seems it matches also just 1 by itself

best wishes and thx again

Z





On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>wrote:

> Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Thank you so much Eric
> >
> > that works well apart from as you said it sometime "spills" over to
> > other uneeded lines. any idea of how to limit the number of newlines
> > that
> > the regexp can match?
> >
> > really appreciate the help
>
> The easiest thing would be to add a newline to the list of non-matching
> characters, like this: "\\(♩[^♩\n]+♩\\)". That won't match _anything_
> that goes longer than one line, though -- is that what you want? I'm
> actually not sure how to make the regexp match a specific number of
> newlines without things getting much more complicated...
>
> > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <
> > eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> >
> >     Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >     > Thank you again
> >     >
> >     > that works well but i think it dosent cover what i had in org.
> >     in org
> >     > i use the ♩ symbol to highlight all the text between the 2 ♩,
> >     IE
> >     >
> >     > ♩ALL THIS TEXT IS HIGHLIGHTED♩, currently with the above code
> >     the ♩
> >     > is highlighted but not the text between, is it possible to do
> >     achive
> >     > that with font-lock?
> >     >
> >     > i really appreciate your help!
> >     >
> >     > z
> >
> >     Yup, it's pretty much the exact same thing, just with a different
> >     regexp.
> >
> >     (font-lock-add-keywords
> >      'org-mode
> >      '(("\\(♩[^♩]+♩\\)" (0 '(:weight ultra-bold :background "#
> >     FFBF1E") t))))
> >
> >     You can use "♩\\([^♩]+\\)♩" instead, if you only want the text
> >     between
> >     the symbols to be highlighted.
> >
> >     It might be a good idea to somehow limit the number of newlines
> >     that
> >     the regexp can match, I'm not sure.
> >
> >     Yours,
> >     Eric
> >
> >
>
>
>