From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Context sensitive code highlighting. Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:24:22 +0200 Message-ID: <87myo4h43d.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207661126 30587 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2008 13:25:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 13:25:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 08 15:25:59 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JjDpV-0003At-4V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:25:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JjDor-0003GR-IO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:25:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JjDoX-0003Eq-Vp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:24:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JjDoS-0003A1-5P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:24:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JjDoS-00039v-3a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:24:36 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JjDoR-0004TP-Rg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:24:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JjDoO-0005qh-Ti for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:24:32 +0000 Original-Received: from dslb-092-072-004-209.pools.arcor-ip.net ([92.72.4.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:24:32 +0000 Original-Received: from tassilo by dslb-092-072-004-209.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:24:32 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-092-072-004-209.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zDZz+xtRrnXRE53ON5adSSuRMew= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:53172 Archived-At: Robin.Fairey@gmail.com writes: > How hard would it be to implement context sensitive font lock > behaviour? I'm thinking of something that scans the code for an > argument list and then highlights subsequent occurences of the > argument names in a new colour. Have a look at highlight-symbol.el [1], especially `highlight-symbol-mode'. Bye, Tassilo __________ [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/HighlightSymbol http://nschum.de/src/emacs/highlight-symbol/