Variable: mail-font-lock-keywords
mail-font-lock-keywords is a variable defined in sendmail.el.gz.
Value
(("^\\(To\\|Newsgroups\\):" . font-lock-function-name-face)
("^\\(B?Cc\\|Reply-To\\|Mail-\\(Reply\\|Followup\\)-To\\):" . font-lock-keyword-face)
("^\\(Subject:\\)[ ]*\\(.+\\)?"
(1 font-lock-comment-face))
(eval let
((separator
(if
(zerop
(length mail-header-separator))
" \\`\\' "
(regexp-quote mail-header-separator))))
(cons
(concat "^" separator "$")
'font-lock-warning-face))
("[>|}]"
("\\=[ ]*\\(\\(\\([[:alpha:]]+[[:alpha:]0-9_.@-`'\"]*\\)?\\([>|}][ ]*\\)\\)+\\)\\(.*\\)"
(beginning-of-line)
(end-of-line)
(1 font-lock-comment-delimiter-face nil t)
(5 font-lock-comment-face nil t)))
("^\\(X-[A-Za-z0-9-]+\\|In-Reply-To\\):.*\\(\n[ ]+.*\\)*$" . font-lock-string-face))
Documentation
Additional expressions to highlight in Mail mode.
Source Code
;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/mail/sendmail.el.gz
(defvar mail-font-lock-keywords
(eval-when-compile
(let* ((cite-chars "[>|}]")
(cite-prefix "[:alpha:]")
(cite-suffix (concat cite-prefix "0-9_.@-`'\"")))
(list '("^\\(To\\|Newsgroups\\):" . font-lock-function-name-face)
'("^\\(B?Cc\\|Reply-To\\|Mail-\\(Reply\\|Followup\\)-To\\):" . font-lock-keyword-face)
'("^\\(Subject:\\)[ \t]*\\(.+\\)?"
(1 font-lock-comment-face)
;; (2 font-lock-type-face nil t)
)
;; Use EVAL to delay in case `mail-header-separator' gets changed.
'(eval .
(let ((separator (if (zerop (length mail-header-separator))
" \\`\\' "
(regexp-quote mail-header-separator))))
(cons (concat "^" separator "$") 'font-lock-warning-face)))
;; Use MATCH-ANCHORED to effectively anchor the regexp left side.
`(,cite-chars
(,(concat "\\=[ \t]*"
"\\(\\(\\([" cite-prefix "]+[" cite-suffix "]*\\)?"
"\\(" cite-chars "[ \t]*\\)\\)+\\)"
"\\(.*\\)")
(beginning-of-line) (end-of-line)
(1 font-lock-comment-delimiter-face nil t)
(5 font-lock-comment-face nil t)))
'("^\\(X-[A-Za-z0-9-]+\\|In-Reply-To\\):.*\\(\n[ \t]+.*\\)*$"
. font-lock-string-face))))
"Additional expressions to highlight in Mail mode.")