Closes #790: The NameHighlightFilter now works with any Name.* token type.

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index f8794be7..244a5559 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ Version 1.7
 
 - Haxe lexer: rewrite and support for Haxe 3 (PR#174).
 
+- The NameHighlightFilter now works with any Name.* token type (#790).
+
 
 Version 1.6
 -----------
diff --git a/pygments/filters/__init__.py b/pygments/filters/__init__.py
index f12d025c..84c0193d 100644
--- a/pygments/filters/__init__.py
+++ b/pygments/filters/__init__.py
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ class KeywordCaseFilter(Filter):
 
 class NameHighlightFilter(Filter):
     """
-    Highlight a normal Name token with a different token type.
+    Highlight a normal Name (and Name.*) token with a different token type.
 
     Example::
 
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ class NameHighlightFilter(Filter):
 
     def filter(self, lexer, stream):
         for ttype, value in stream:
-            if ttype is Name and value in self.names:
+            if ttype in Name and value in self.names:
                 yield self.tokentype, value
             else:
                 yield ttype, value