On Apr 7, 2005 11:00 PM, Juri Linkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Why not use the location of the text-properties added by the filter to
> > inform compile of the column?
> >
> > [What does font-lock have to do with it anyway? Does compile use
> > font-lock these days???]
>
> compile uses a specification list similar to font-lock-keywords to
> specify how to highlight the keywords. It translates this list to
> font-lock-keywords with additional code to put some compile-specific
> text-properties. Then this list is processed by font-lock machinery.
I see; so as the font-lock mechanism is flexible enough to allow code
to be excuted for a match, it seems there should be no problem to use
special text-properties to locate the exact column of the match.
That is:
(1) Use a process filter to translate escape sequences to text-properties
(2) Use the normal font-lock-like matcher to locate each grep match-line
(3) In the match-term, optionally look for the text-properties added in (1)
to provide column information
-miles
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