From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .emacs poser Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:23:48 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87sitp7szm.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <87wqj4p720.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87fvpsp3oy.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <8761qo56we.fsf@ID-264037.user.dfncis.de> <878uvjsa1k.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387401944 30227 80.91.229.3 (18 Dec 2013 21:25:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 21:25:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 18 22:25:51 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VtOcp-0007yA-7k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:25:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40919 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VtOco-0000QV-Rc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:25:50 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:MLIiagNnplyMwq+rtrBzyikrElQ= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202816 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95085 Archived-At: Yuri Khan writes: > Writing keywords in all caps used to be popular in > case-insensitive languages until syntax highlighting > editors became the norm. Nowadays, it’s not quite as > frequent. Is the preprocessor in C case-*in*sensitive? Because C isn't. > If/when there comes a day when most editors (IDEs?) > can reliably detect preprocessor macros and highlight > them with a dangerous-looking shade of red, the > all-caps convention for #defines can also be dropped. This sounds like something that would be possible to do with Emacs today. As for the definitions, that would be a regular expression (very easy). But how to make it consistent in the rest of the buffer (i.e., where the constant is used), I don't know. In c-mode: #ifndef DEF_H #define FINGERS 10 The faces are: #ifndef, #define: font-lock-preprocessor-face FINGERS: font-lock-variable-name-face -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573