Programming Syntax Mode

Programming Syntax Mode

[Brian Wilson]

Dear All,

Apologies for cross-posting firstly....

Do forgive me if this is a simple question, but I have just started
using emacs and Linux, two things I am completely new to!

I am using emacs at college to program in C and C++ and note that
there is syntax highlighting to allow me to see reserved words, etc.
Is there a way I can start emacs from the shell with some kind of
arguments so that I can not only have highlighting on by default, but
so that I can decide which language to do it in? Something like 'emacs
--lang=cpp --highlighting --color' ?

Any help would be most appreciated.


Brian Wilson

Re: Programming Syntax Mode

[Kai Großjohann]

briwilson2002@hotmail.com (Brian Wilson) writes:

> I am using emacs at college to program in C and C++ and note that
> there is syntax highlighting to allow me to see reserved words, etc.
> Is there a way I can start emacs from the shell with some kind of
> arguments so that I can not only have highlighting on by default,

M-x customize-group RET font-lock RET

Toggle the Global Font Lock option and don't forget to save your
changes.

> but so that I can decide which language to do it in? Something like
> 'emacs --lang=cpp --highlighting --color' ?

Emacs usually guesses the mode from the filename.  For example, foo.c
is a C file and foo.cpp is a C++ file.

If this is wrong for a specific file (*.h is used for C and C++
files), you can put "-*- c++ -*-" into the first line of the
file (sans quotes).  It could be in a comment, like so:

/* -*- c++ -*- */

I guess it's obvious how to change it for C files.

kai
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