https://gustafwaldemarson.com/enContents © 2025 <a href="mailto:gustaf.waldemarson@gmail.com">Gustaf Waldemarson</a> Sun, 11 May 2025 14:49:25 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://gustafwaldemarson.com/posts/updated-format-specifier-highlighting-in-emacs/Gustaf Waldemarson<div><p> What feels like ages ago now, I wrote a short <a href="/posts/printf-format-highlighting-in-emacs">post</a> about improving the syntax highlighting of format specifiers for <code>printf</code> style functions (actually, all strings). While it has worked great for a long time, it is about time to give it a bit of a face-lift and at the same time make it even more general. </p> <p> The first item on the agenda however, is to make the original regexp, <i>manageable</i>. When we finished things up, we were left with the following: </p> <p><a href="https://gustafwaldemarson.com/posts/updated-format-specifier-highlighting-in-emacs/">Read more…</a> (3 min remaining to read)</p></div>elispemacsprintfregexprxhttps://gustafwaldemarson.com/posts/updated-format-specifier-highlighting-in-emacs/Sun, 18 Aug 2024 10:09:42 GMThttps://gustafwaldemarson.com/posts/printf-format-highlighting-in-emacs/Gustaf Waldemarson<div><p> Most of my work is done in either <code>C</code> or <code>C++</code>, so I frequently use the <code>printf</code> family of functions to write a wide variety of stuff to the display. Naturally, I'd like the format specifiers to stand out from the rest of the characters in the strings, so for the longest time I used this piece of <code>elisp</code> code to achieve that: </p> <p><a href="https://gustafwaldemarson.com/posts/printf-format-highlighting-in-emacs/">Read more…</a> (2 min remaining to read)</p></div>elispemacsprintfregexphttps://gustafwaldemarson.com/posts/printf-format-highlighting-in-emacs/Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:24:55 GMT