Useful syntax highlighting (font lock) in a mixed xml lua file

Useful syntax highlighting (font lock) in a mixed xml lua file

[Timur Aydin]

Hi,

I am working on an xml file that has an embedded CDATA section which 
contains lua source code. I am mostly working on the lua code and would 
like that code to be syntax highlighted by emacs. When I activate 
lua-mode, it understandably gets confused because of all the surrounding 
xml. When I activate xml-mode, the xml stuff is properly syntax 
highlighted, but the lua code in the CDATA section is uniformly colored 
plain text.

Is there a way to utilize font-lock mode in a sensible manner? I 
attempted to put the lua code in a separate file (script.lua) and then 
included it into the xml using DOCTYPE and ENTITY tags, but this didn't 
help, because I don't have any control over the software that parses 
this xml file. It isn't able to deal with extra xml tags.

So my only hope is to be able to tell emacs to font-lock a region 
bounded by a CDATA tag using lua-mode and to font-lock the rest using 
xml-mode. Is there a way to do this?

-- 
Timur Aydin

Re: Useful syntax highlighting (font lock) in a mixed xml lua file

[David Edmondson]

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On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:47:10 +0200, Timur Aydin <ta@taydin.org> wrote:
> I am working on an xml file that has an embedded CDATA section which 
> contains lua source code. I am mostly working on the lua code and would 
> like that code to be syntax highlighted by emacs. When I activate 
> lua-mode, it understandably gets confused because of all the surrounding 
> xml. When I activate xml-mode, the xml stuff is properly syntax 
> highlighted, but the lua code in the CDATA section is uniformly colored 
> plain text.
> 
> Is there a way to utilize font-lock mode in a sensible manner? I 
> attempted to put the lua code in a separate file (script.lua) and then 
> included it into the xml using DOCTYPE and ENTITY tags, but this didn't 
> help, because I don't have any control over the software that parses 
> this xml file. It isn't able to deal with extra xml tags.
> 
> So my only hope is to be able to tell emacs to font-lock a region 
> bounded by a CDATA tag using lua-mode and to font-lock the rest using 
> xml-mode. Is there a way to do this?

I don't know how to do that.

Did you consider using an indirect buffer? If you have the indirect
buffer narrowed to the Lua code and with the correct major-mode,
font-lock should work there.

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Re: Useful syntax highlighting (font lock) in a mixed xml lua file

[Titus von der Malsburg]

Perhaps you can use MuMaMo?

   http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MuMaMo

   "Mumamo is a library for cooperation of multiple
   major modes in a buffer. mumamo divides the buffer
   into chunks, each with its own major mode."

Titus

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Timur Aydin <ta@taydin.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on an xml file that has an embedded CDATA section which
> contains lua source code. I am mostly working on the lua code and would like
> that code to be syntax highlighted by emacs. When I activate lua-mode, it
> understandably gets confused because of all the surrounding xml. When I
> activate xml-mode, the xml stuff is properly syntax highlighted, but the lua
> code in the CDATA section is uniformly colored plain text.
>
> Is there a way to utilize font-lock mode in a sensible manner? I attempted
> to put the lua code in a separate file (script.lua) and then included it
> into the xml using DOCTYPE and ENTITY tags, but this didn't help, because I
> don't have any control over the software that parses this xml file. It isn't
> able to deal with extra xml tags.
>
> So my only hope is to be able to tell emacs to font-lock a region bounded by
> a CDATA tag using lua-mode and to font-lock the rest using xml-mode. Is
> there a way to do this?
>
> --
> Timur Aydin
>



-- 
Titus von der Malsburg
DFG Research Group 868: Mind and Brain Dynamics
Dept. of Linguistics, University of Potsdam
http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~malsburg/