Thanks for the hint, I tried this, but all my beautiful salad bowl colours went away.
(font-lock-add-keywords 'org-mode '(("\"\\(\\(?:.\\|\n\\)*?[^\\]\\)\"" 0 font-lock-string-face))) Notice that I made a bad attempt to handle escaped quotation mark in the string. Does anyone know a better solution to handle escaped characters in font-lock? On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:17 AM, John Wiegley <jwieg...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> John Wiegley <jwieg...@gmail.com> writes: > >>>>>> Le Wang <l26w...@gmail.com> writes: >>> I wasn't able to google a clear examples of how to do this. For example, >>> I'd like to highlight all text between double-quotes. > >> Typically it looks something like this: > >> (font-lock-add-keywords org-mode > [...] > > Sorry, that should be 'org-mode, to name the symbol, not attempt to use its > value. > > John > > > -- Le