Re: [O] custom emacs org-emphasis-alist breaks EXPORT, help ;-) ?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Xebar Saram <address@hidden> writes:

> Thank you so much Eric
>
> that works well apart from as you said it sometime "spills" over to
> other uneeded lines. any idea of how to limit the number of newlines
> that
> the regexp can match?
>
> really appreciate the help

The easiest thing would be to add a newline to the list of non-matching
characters, like this: "\\(♩[^♩\n]+♩\\)". That won't match _anything_
that goes longer than one line, though -- is that what you want? I'm
actually not sure how to make the regexp match a specific number of
newlines without things getting much more complicated... 

> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <
> address@hidden> wrote:
>
>     Xebar Saram <address@hidden> writes:
>    
>     > Thank you again
>     >
>     > that works well but i think it dosent cover what i had in org.
>     in org
>     > i use the ♩ symbol to highlight all the text between the 2 ♩,
>     IE
>     >
>     > ♩ALL THIS TEXT IS HIGHLIGHTED♩, currently with the above code
>     the ♩
>     > is highlighted but not the text between, is it possible to do
>     achive
>     > that with font-lock?
>     >
>     > i really appreciate your help!
>     >
>     > z
>    
>     Yup, it's pretty much the exact same thing, just with a different
>     regexp.
>    
>     (font-lock-add-keywords
>      'org-mode
>      '(("\\(♩[^♩]+♩\\)" (0 '(:weight ultra-bold :background "#
>     FFBF1E") t))))
>    
>     You can use "♩\\([^♩]+\\)♩" instead, if you only want the text
>     between
>     the symbols to be highlighted.
>    
>     It might be a good idea to somehow limit the number of newlines
>     that
>     the regexp can match, I'm not sure.
>    
>     Yours,
>     Eric
>    
>