From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to define a comment syntax for files having a specific extension?
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:01:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmz1qswpu.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1175504010.137805.217560@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com
> and working on journal text files *.jou for which the commented lines
> must start with the character "/".
> While editing one of such files I need to run
> M-: (setq comment-start "/")
> in order to comment regions with the sequence C-c;
> I'd like to have emacs recognize the "*.jou" files and
> apply the corresponding comment syntax automatically,
> sparing me from having to type
> M-: (setq comment-start "/")
> each time I start working on a *.jou file.
You need to create a major mode for those types of files.
Check out sample-mode.el
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-02 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-02 8:53 how to define a comment syntax for files having a specific extension? gento
2007-04-02 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-04-02 15:23 ` gento
2007-04-03 7:30 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2007-04-03 10:51 ` gento
2007-04-03 8:27 ` Tim X
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