Add highlighting for multiple line comments

lisp/ldg-fonts.el

@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@
      ;; 				  ledger-font-other-face)
      (,ledger-comment-regex 0
 			    'ledger-font-comment-face)
+     (,ledger-multiline-comment-regex 0 'ledger-font-comment-face)
      (,ledger-payee-pending-regex 2 
 				  'ledger-font-payee-pending-face) ; Works
      (,ledger-payee-cleared-regex 2 
@@ -130,7 +131,34 @@
      (,ledger-other-entries-regex 1 
 				  'ledger-font-other-face))
   "Expressions to highlight in Ledger mode.")
-    
+
+(defun ledger-extend-region-multiline-comment ()
+  "Adjusts the variables font-lock-beg and font-lock-end if they
+  fall within a multiline comment.  Returns non-nil if an
+  adjustment is made."
+  (let (beg end)
+    ;; fix beg
+    (save-excursion
+     (goto-char font-lock-beg)
+     (end-of-line)
+     (when (re-search-backward ledger-multiline-comment-start-regex nil t)
+       (setq beg (point))
+       (re-search-forward ledger-multiline-comment-regex nil t)
+       (if (and (>= (point) font-lock-beg)
+                (/= beg font-lock-beg))
+           (setq font-lock-beg beg)
+         (setq beg nil))))
+    ;; fix end
+    (save-excursion
+      (goto-char font-lock-end)
+      (end-of-line)
+      (when (re-search-backward ledger-multiline-comment-start-regex nil t)
+        (re-search-forward ledger-multiline-comment-regex nil t)
+        (setq end (point))
+        (if (> end font-lock-end)
+            (setq font-lock-end end)
+          (setq end nil))))
+    (or beg end)))
 
 (provide 'ldg-fonts)
 

lisp/ldg-mode.el

@@ -110,6 +110,10 @@ Can indent, complete or align depending on context."
     (if (boundp 'font-lock-defaults)
 	(set (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults)
 	     '(ledger-font-lock-keywords nil t)))
+    (setq font-lock-extend-region-functions
+          (list #'font-lock-extend-region-wholelines
+                #'ledger-extend-region-multiline-comment))
+    (setq font-lock-multiline nil)
 
     (set (make-local-variable 'pcomplete-parse-arguments-function)
 	 'ledger-parse-arguments)

lisp/ldg-regex.el

@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@
 (defconst ledger-comment-regex
   "^[;#|\\*%].*\\|[ \t]+;.*")
 
+(defconst ledger-multiline-comment-start-regex
+  "^!comment$")
+(defconst ledger-multiline-comment-end-regex
+  "^!end_comment$")
+(defconst ledger-multiline-comment-regex
+  "^!comment\n\\(.*\n\\)*?!end_comment$")
+
 (defconst ledger-payee-any-status-regex 
   "^[0-9]+[-/][-/.=0-9]+\\(\\s-+\\*\\)?\\(\\s-+(.*?)\\)?\\s-+\\(.+?\\)\\s-*\\(;\\|$\\)")