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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typescript-ts-mode requires manual font-lock-update call after first visiting a file
I've been using typescript-mode and tide for a long time but I wanted to try out tree-sitter and lsp-mode. I've got most things working except for one problem with syntax highlighting. When I first ...
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Why does it matter where I set cperl-invalid-face
If in my config files I just have the line (setq cperl-invalid-face nil) then in cperl-mode things behave as I expect: trailing whitespace is not shown with an underline. I tried add this to the ...
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How to force non matching braces without hurting the syntax checker?
In AucTeX mode (but I think this is not related to this mode), I often type semi closed-semi open intervals like $(a,b]$ Then the syntax checker complains that some braces are not balanced and colors ...
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Does Emacs support stripping comments in CLI mode?
While researching how to remove C and C++ style comments from a file, I stumbled on the following two comments by Alan Mackenzie from almost 20 years ago: I can assure you, as half of the Emacs CC ...
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Help with `font-lock-add-keywords` regex for org keywords
I am trying to add my own org 'document keywords' with my own faces. I am referring to the keywords sitting at the top of the file like #+title: My Tile for example which get their own faces. Thanks ...
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Color bleeding and polymode
I sometimes experience "color bleeding" in auctex, and wasn't able to find the source of the problem for a long time. In particular because I wasn't able to reproduce the issue. I also can't ...
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Highlight prettified code
is there a way of highlighting a prettified phrase? Something like: (push '("\\qquad " . "⧢") prettify-symbols-alist) (highlight-phrase "⧢" 'shadow) (highlight-...
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Is there an efficient way to fontify matches of thousands of different strings in a buffer?
I have a list of thousands of different strings made up of different numbers of words (e.g. names of specific people) that I would like to fontify in a buffer. Some applications I could use for ...
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