Questions tagged [font-lock]
Font Lock mode is a minor mode, always local to a particular buffer, which assigns faces to the text in the buffer.
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highlight-regexp groups for syntax highlighting
I want to highlight certain words to a color using highlight-regexp. The words I want to highlight are "fn", "let", "mut", etc. for rust development.
The code I have so far is this:
(add-hook '...
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Use `defun` font-locking for other keywords
I'm using the tco.el package, which provides tail-call optimisation for functions in elisp that call themselves in tail-position. The way such functions are identified is by using defun-tco instead of ...
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How to defeat the fontification of colour literals in css-mode?
Emacs css-mode is fontifying my colour literals. For example:
This makes the text harder to read.
I tried to defeat it with the following in my .emacs.
(Note: this matches on ‘hsl’ because those ...
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highlight-regexp: what's the variable in which they are stored?
I need to write a macro, with-temp-highlight-regexps, that evaluates BODY and than restores the previous highlighted regexps (created with the highlight-regexp function). I thought I could do it by ...
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Fontify headline with todo keyword color
I would like to fontify headlines with the same color/weight as their TODO keywords. So for example, the default is like this:
TODO Headline
And I want it to look like this:
TODO Headline
Any ...
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Changing colors of text between two pre-specified markers
I am editing some TeX files, in emacs in which contains lots of text
between @{ and @} markers. Is it possible to modify TeX's highlighting so that text between those brackets get colored in yellow, ...
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Make text Invisible with font-lock-keywords
I'm interested in changing my org-mode buffers to have a better looking logbook. My ideal state to end up in is that text that looks like this:
- State "WAITING" from "WAITING" [2018-11-16 Fri ...
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font-lock limits ignored in anchored matchers
I think I might have found a bug in GNU Emacs but I want to check my understanding first.
In Search Based Fontification it is possible to specify a function as a matcher. It must obey the contract
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Font lock mode not picking up keywords
Emacs version 26.1, compiled on CentOS 7.5 , running ada-mode 5.3.1.
The parser works correctly, but the problem is that keywords aren't being coloured. When I run describe font on the keyword, it is ...
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how can I unit test my font-face rules?
I would like to unit test my font-face keyword rules against some source code data sets.
It sounds like it should be quite easy: open the source file, enable the mode, force fontification, dump out ...
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deeply nested loops and conditionals
I am refactoring legacy code. Looks like:
for (int i = 0; i < something.length; i++) {
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lots of code here
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if (a.good != b.bad) {
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EMACS doesn't grey out comments
When I comment out code with combination of /* and */ in JavaScript nothing happens with text and it stays the same color. (You can see it in second part of code, one that is not grayed out but is ...
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Enable `cc-mode` documentation highlightning per minor mode
I am writing a minor mode for enabling support for JML within Java files.
I realized the syntax highlighting with cc-mode's support for documentation comments.
It works if I set c-doc-comment-style ...
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Apply ANSI color escape sequences for Org Babel results
Feature
There is a nice built-in Emacs feature to colorize strings with ANSI color escape sequences. So evaluating the following Elisp code, will insert the "Test text" at the point with proper ...
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Determine the face(s) that would be applied to a character inserted at point, after font-lock does its thing?
Suppose I am trying to write a major mode. In this mode, certain ordinary characters should have special "electric" behavior when typed, but only in some contexts (e.g. in code but not in strings or ...
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with-temp-buffer removes text properties
Given e.g. (with-temp-buffer (clojure-mode) (insert ":hello") (buffer-string)), I'd expected the result to be propertized, however it isn't.
How to get a propertized string out of a temporary buffer?
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Dynamic syntax highlighting (font-lock-mode) stops working in emacs 25.3
About 15-20 minutes into using emacs my syntax highlighting stops dynamically updating. Instead any new text just uses the color of the text right before it.
Any ideas on how to debug this issue or ...
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Fix org-mode agenda highlighting
I'm having an issue with highlighting in Org agenda:
Can't make the link and tags Gray when the item is marked as Done. I've tried to play with different properties of the font-lock definition, but ...
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Why are code blocks and code literals displaying with large face in markdown
In markdown mode, all of the fenced code blocks and inline code literal strings are displaying with this very large font. The size is large, and also I'm pretty sure it isn't the same font as the ...
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ANSI / xterm font-locking
I have a buffer with terminal escape codes in it and I want them to be colored:
I was able to do this with (ansi-color-apply-on-region (point-min) (point-max)):
However, my file is really big and ...
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Why can't I fontify an indirect buffer?
I like using indirect buffers and narrowing to work on multiple sections of code simultaneously.
I noticed recently that if I disable font-lock-mode in an indirect buffer then I cannot get proper ...
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Replace string with variable [duplicate]
Why does this work for me:
(defvar my-mode-keywords
'(("\\(?:\\s_\\|\\sw\\)*:" 0 font-lock-comment-face)))
(font-lock-add-keywords 'my-mode my-mode-keywords)
And this doesn't:
(setq myreg "\\(?...
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No font lock in org-mode
When I the first time enter an org-mode buffer, I get no font lock at all unless I revert-buffer or reopen the file. Even I turn on the debug mode, no error is emit.
How should I debug and fix this?
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Highlight a particular string in every open buffer in any mode
I want to highlight a particular string ("@@") in every open buffer in any mode.
Can I create an overlay for every mode? A global font-lock?
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Preventing syntax highlighting in the wrap-prefix
When Emacs wraps long lines, is there a way to prevent the wrap prefix from having syntax highlighting (font-lock) or any such special properties?
Specifically, I have the following settings:
;; ...
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Replacing autoref command format specification in auctex's font-latex-match-reference-keywords-local
With some help I have redefined the autoref command to take an optional argument, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/428229/autoref-with-optional-argument-text-in-generated-link
Now I am ...
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font-lock conditionals in c
I'd like to set a special face for the parenthesized part in conditionals, i.e. the (A) in
if (A)
while (A)
As I understand it, I need to add a font-lock regexp rule for this. But I'm not sure how ...
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Search based fontification not working
In trying to learn Emacs Lisp on Emacs 25.3.1, I decided to implement a minimal version of fic-mode. Following is the code:
(defun todo/pos-in-doc-or-comment-region-p (pos)
(memq (get-char-property ...
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Highlight (and increase font) for specific words in the buffer when it's opened
I'm looking for functionality that will allow me to highlight specific words of text when I open the buffer in specific mode, like it should work if you're in
js2-mode
web-mode
vue-mode
and the ...
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Highlight a buffer with custom programming language syntax
I have files which are not .py but they are python code. I want to highlight them as if they were python files. How can I do that.
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Font-locking for text inside org-mode COMMENT blocks
While other sorts of #+BEGIN ... #+END blocks seem to get font-locking applied to them (potentially changing foreground and background colours etc.), #+BEGIN_COMMENT ... #+END_COMMENT blocks do not. ...
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Display another symbol than asterisks in org headings
I would like to change the way headings render while still using the * to type headings (so this question is distinct from Change the asterisk (heading identifier) to some other symbol in Org mode)
I ...
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Using advice-add messes up syntax highlighting
I have the following (stripped down) code in my .emacs:
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/"))
(package-initialize)
(let ((default-directory (...
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font-lock for \left and \big in auctex
I am trying to replicate
http://endlessparentheses.com/improving-latex-equations-with-font-lock.html
with no success, I get a "defface for ‘endless/unimportant-latex-face’ fails to specify containing ...
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Fontify source code blocks with Org 9.0
Is there a way to do syntax highlighting in org-mode code blocks without using: (setq org-src-fontify-natively t)?
Since v. 8, I have been unable to fontify the background for org-block with this ...
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How to highlight graphql template literals (gql) in js(x) files?
Inside of a jsx file, I want to use a gql template literal to define GraphQL queries.
Could I in emacs make that section of the jsx file highlight graphql syntax, instead of just showing it as a ...
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Unable to run browse-kill-ring
After installing the browse-kill-ring package under Emacs 24.5.1, I get the following error when running the browse-kill-ring command:
font-lock-set-defaults: Wrong type argument: symbolp, (font-...
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Prettify string, find by regex
I want to replace the regular expression `.*` by bolding .* and not displaying the backticks. So I want `elem` to become elem
I looked into these questions about how to prettify strings rather than ...
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Switching » and « in tex-mode
In tex-mode, the font lock mechanism treats characters between « and » as quoted text. This is fine for French and Norwegian, which use the quotation marks «thus».
But in German and Danish the ...
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How to syntax highlight text which is not already highlighted?
I'd like to highlight function calls in C code, eg:
(font-lock-add-keywords 'c-mode
`((,(concat
"\\([_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*\\)" ; Object identifier
"\\s *" ; ...
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`htmlize` not taking CIDER font-locking into account
I'm using htmlize to give Org-mode code blocks syntax highlighting when exported as HTML, but the exported code only captures some of the font-locking.
In particular, for Clojure, it does not capture ...
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org-pretty-entities for markdown-mode
org-mode has the variable org-pretty-entities that allows for the display of LaTeX math as unicode characters. How could one get the same result in markdown-mode? It seems like this should be a ...
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How to highlight fragments of source and example blocks within an org-mode buffer itself
This is a variation on the theme of How to <mark> code fragments in org-export.
Here the question is about making portions of src and example blocks stand out (preferably without breaking the ...
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How can I make hl-line mode not override the color of rainbow-mode? [duplicate]
Is there an non-intrusive way to do this?
I've made a fork of rainbow-mode that uses overlay instead of text properties, which solves this :)
https://github.com/amosbird/rainbow-mode
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Font lock of inline code in org-mode?
When using org-mode as a front-end to LaTeX, I'm making heavy use of inline code like @@latex:\textit{something italic}@@. Right now, this is mainly displayed as normal text (with proportional font ...
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How to change the appearance of list bullets in LaTeX/beamer exports?
It's very neat that simple org-mode lists get exported to itemize (or enumerate) environments in LaTeX. Yet I would like also to be able to change the face of an \item bullet using square brackets, as ...
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Default syntax highlighting as in “emacs -Q”
I want to use the syntax highlighting that you get when running emacs -Q. If I run emacs -q, or run Emacs with no ~/.emacs file existent, or not load any custom theme, I get a dark-backgrounded color ...
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How to make my own org-mode text emphasis work again?
This might be interersting: For quite some time I used the code block below in my custom.el to make my own emphasis definitions. This worked up to org 9, I think. Then all of a sudden when I needed it ...
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How can I dynamically set the column width that I'd like to font-lock?
My init currently has the following:
(defun font-lock-width-keyword (width) ...
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Highlight a comma-separated list by using rx macro
I want to create font locking for string like:
interface Foo extends B, C, D, E {};
And I can't understand why my regexp rule doesn't work for font locking:
(defvar my-font-lock-keywords
`(
;;...
