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Re: please help with font-lock-add-keywords
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: please help with font-lock-add-keywords |
Date: |
Thu, 7 Jan 2010 02:01:40 +0100 |
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:39 AM, David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com> wrote:
>>> (add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook
>>> (lambda ()
>>> (font-lock-add-keywords
>>> nil
>>> '(("\\<\\(qbb-create-image\\|qbb-destroy-image\\)\\>" .
>>> font-lock-keyword-face)))))
>>
>>Looks correct. But when using the ("regexp" . face) form, you can use
>>shy groups for performance reasons, because here you refer to the whole
>
> Please, what is a "shy group"? Some math thing?
It is a group that does not record sub expressions in the match.
Written with (?: ...) like
'(("\\<\\(?:qbb-create-image\\|qbb-destroy-image\\)\\>" .