[O] SOLUTION - Re: How to colorize text in square brackets?

[Sharon Kimble]

Sharon Kimble <address@hidden> 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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