Define new comment style with string literals rather than characters

Question

I am trying to define another comment style, similar to what we can do with modify-syntax-entry:

(modify-syntax-entry ?/ ". 124b")
(modify-syntax-entry ?* ". 23")
(modify-syntax-entry ?\n "> b")

However, the comment has to be as follows:

`comment("This is my comment!")`

I have tried using regex:

(defconst my-comment-macro-regexp
   (rx "`comment(\"" (zero-or-more anything) "\")`"))

(defconst my-font-lock-keywords
  (list
   (cons my-comment-macro-regexp 'font-lock-comment-face)))

But this doesn't work as the string highlighting on the inside of the macro takes precedence over this font style.

Answer 1

I had to override the string matching:

(defconst my-font-lock-keywords
  (list
   (list my-comment-macro-regexp 0 'font-lock-comment-face t)))

You can read a good explanation on why this works here: [1].

See also: [2], [3].