From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "spamfilteraccount@gmail.com" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: State-machine based syntax highlighting Date: 7 Dec 2006 09:02:12 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1165510932.276718.251220@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com> References: <1165472049.496117.320630@79g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <1165488825.132862.189340@79g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <1165492567.864982.59980@79g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <1165495364.560960.271250@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1165501630.172348.157180@j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1165502373.932709.15860@79g2000cws.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165513287 14208 80.91.229.10 (7 Dec 2006 17:41:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 17:41:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 07 18:41:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GsNFJ-0005NM-3h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:41:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GsNFI-00019c-M5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:41:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.182.19.195 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1165510937 18572 127.0.0.1 (7 Dec 2006 17:02:17 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 17:02:17 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1165502373.932709.15860@79g2000cws.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.01 (Windows NT 5.0; U; en),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.182.19.195; posting-account=b98TkQ0AAAD7PsllN8gfWGRoPOPWdnv4 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143725 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39327 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe wrote: > > > I did a quick search and found this page > > > > http://harmonia.cs.berkeley.edu/harmonia/projects/harmonia-mode/doc/index.html > > > > with a demo xemacs package with syntax highlighting and stuff. Looked > > interesting. > > Interesting. I wondered why they supported xemacs only, so I downloaded the source. Seems they wrote xemacs extensions in c which have to be compiled into xemacs. Not a usual way to extend an emacs, but probably advantageous from a performance point of view. The idea already occured to me that font locking should be implemented in pure c in emacs for speed, but I guess it's kind of against the extensible editor concept or something.