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* Editing configuration files
@ 2010-07-04 16:38 Giuseppe Fuggiano
  2010-07-04 18:08 ` Qiang Guo
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Giuseppe Fuggiano @ 2010-07-04 16:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Hi there.

For some years I used Vim, but currently I'm missing some important 
features to use for coding and debugging.

Today, I'm passing to Emacs as a editor of choice for every editing 
purposes, but I'm missing the Vim's automatic highlighting when opening 
configuration files.

I tried M-x conf-mode but it's imperfect. For example, if I edit 
/etc/crontab in Vim, it highlights correctly every field and variable.

What can I do to make Emacs try to highlight every configuration file 
like Vim?

Thanks!

-- 
Giuseppe Fuggiano



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* Re: Editing configuration files
  2010-07-04 16:38 Editing configuration files Giuseppe Fuggiano
@ 2010-07-04 18:08 ` Qiang Guo
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Qiang Guo @ 2010-07-04 18:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Giuseppe Fuggiano; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs


I don't know if there are some more powerful mode for your
need. However, you can write your own mode for configuration
files. Check this out

http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2010/04/creating-custom-modes-easy-way-with.html

Qiang



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