Getting started with syntax highlighting.

Getting started with syntax highlighting.

[Alex Polite]

Hi.

I want get into syntax highlighting.

What I want to do is grey out all text that matches the regular
expression "{id:\d+}. Sounds pretty basic right? But the documentation
leaves me puzzled.

Anybody out got a simple example to get me started?

alex

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Re: Getting started with syntax highlighting.

[David Hansen]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:33:41 +0200 Alex Polite wrote:

> I want get into syntax highlighting.
>
> What I want to do is grey out all text that matches the regular
> expression "{id:\d+}. Sounds pretty basic right? But the documentation
> leaves me puzzled.
>
> Anybody out got a simple example to get me started?

http://two-wugs.net/emacs/mode-tutorial.html

David

Re: Getting started with syntax highlighting.

[Lennart Borgman]

David Hansen wrote:

>On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:33:41 +0200 Alex Polite wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I want get into syntax highlighting.
>>
>>What I want to do is grey out all text that matches the regular
>>expression "{id:\d+}. Sounds pretty basic right? But the documentation
>>leaves me puzzled.
>>
>>Anybody out got a simple example to get me started?
>>    
>>
>
>http://two-wugs.net/emacs/mode-tutorial.html
>  
>
This is also mentioned here:

    http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CreateNewMajorMode

Re: Getting started with syntax highlighting.

[Stefan Monnier]

> What I want to do is grey out all text that matches the regular
> expression "{id:\d+}. Sounds pretty basic right? But the documentation
> leaves me puzzled.

Other than the font-lock doc, check out the regexp-syntax docs as well.


        Stefan

Re: Getting started with syntax highlighting.

[Christian Schlauer]

Alex Polite <notmyprivateemail@gmail.com> writes:

> I want get into syntax highlighting.
>
> What I want to do is grey out all text that matches the regular
> expression "{id:\d+}. Sounds pretty basic right? But the documentation
> leaves me puzzled.
>
> Anybody out got a simple example to get me started?

Try `M-x highlight-regexp RET', maybe this is enough for you. You can
learn more about this in the comment section of the file hi-lock.el.
-- 
Christian Schlauer

Re: Getting started with syntax highlighting.

[rgb]

> I want get into syntax highlighting.
>...
> But the documentation
> leaves me puzzled.

I've noticed the documentation of this in CVS Emacs is greatly
improved over prior versions.  Better explainations and more
examples.  If it still doesn't make sense, try asking a question
about a specific argument or function that isn't clear.