How to colorize text in square brackets?

How to colorize text in square brackets?

[Sharon Kimble]

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How can I colorize text within square brackets please, like [fu] ?

I need them colorized as they will hold reminders for myself at that position whilst I'm writing.

Thanks
Sharon.
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SOLUTION - Re: How to colorize text in square brackets?

[Sharon Kimble]

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Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:

> How can I colorize text within square brackets please, like [fu] ?
>
> I need them colorized as they will hold reminders for myself at that position whilst I'm writing.
>

When I posted this question I knew that the answer would probably lie somewhere within font-lock-add-keywords, but I was unable to find it until I started googling for 'font-lock-keyword-face' which I was already using. This search then lead me to these two pages [1] and [2].

And that lead to this code which achieves what I was trying to accomplish, the text within the square boxes to be coloured totally different from its surrounding text, meaning that now I can write my book and leave myself reminders of various questions, which when I've found the answers can then be deleted.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(font-lock-add-keywords 'org-mode
                        '(("\\[\\(.*\\)\\]"
                                 1 font-lock-type-face prepend)))
#+END_SRC
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thanks
Sharon.

[1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7401787/emacs-mode-how-to-specify-that-thing-in-square-brackets-should-be-colored
[2] - https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Faces-for-Font-Lock.html
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Re: SOLUTION - Re: How to colorize text in square brackets?

[John Kitchin]

I have been using
https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/scimax-editmarks.org

for something like this. It allows me to put comments with a little
markup that are colored as you describe. There is also support to show a
listing of all those comments, so that you don't overlook them by
accident. Of course, you can always use occur on the regexp you are
fontifying to find those too.

Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:

> Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:
>
>> How can I colorize text within square brackets please, like [fu] ?
>>
>> I need them colorized as they will hold reminders for myself at that position whilst I'm writing.
>>
>
> When I posted this question I knew that the answer would probably lie somewhere within font-lock-add-keywords, but I was unable to find it until I started googling for 'font-lock-keyword-face' which I was already using. This search then lead me to these two pages [1] and [2].
>
> And that lead to this code which achieves what I was trying to accomplish, the text within the square boxes to be coloured totally different from its surrounding text, meaning that now I can write my book and leave myself reminders of various questions, which when I've found the answers can then be deleted.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (font-lock-add-keywords 'org-mode
>                         '(("\\[\\(.*\\)\\]"
>                                  1 font-lock-type-face prepend)))
> #+END_SRC
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Thanks
> Sharon.
>
> [1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7401787/emacs-mode-how-to-specify-that-thing-in-square-brackets-should-be-colored
> [2] - https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Faces-for-Font-Lock.html


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