Syntax highlighting for another languaje

Syntax highlighting for another languaje

[Bermudez, Leonardo]

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Hi,

I was wondering how can I define font-locking for another languaje. This
languaje is just comment lines that start with "--", some comands in
uppercase and numbers (its an input file for another program). I was
checking some of the definitions for awk, c++ and others but they were
intimidating for my newibie level in lisp.

The other problem that I have is that I am just at user level in a linux
box and I do not have administrative rights.

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

Leo


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Re: Syntax highlighting for another languaje

[Oliver Scholz]

"Bermudez, Leonardo " <lbcd@ChevronTexaco.com> writes:
[...]
> I was wondering how can I define font-locking for another
> languaje. This languaje is just comment lines that start with "--",
> some comands in uppercase and numbers (its an input file for another
> program). I was checking some of the definitions for awk, c++ and
> others but they were intimidating for my newibie level in lisp.
[...]

Have a look at `define-generic-mode'. This makes it easy to define
simple modes. 

See <URL: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GenericMode> for
more information.

For more complex stuff there is a tutorial at
<URL: http://two-wugs.net/emacs/mode-tutorial.html>

    Oliver
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Re: Syntax highlighting for another languaje

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Leo,


"Bermudez, Leonardo " <lbcd@ChevronTexaco.com> writes:
> I was wondering how can I define font-locking for another
> languaje. This languaje is just comment lines that start with "--",
> some comands in uppercase and numbers (its an input file for another
> program).

Have a look at lisp/generic.el and lisp/generic-x.el.  The first
defines the function define-generic-mode (see also C-h f
define-generic-mode), the other uses that for a number of simple
modes that you can use as examples. 

> The other problem that I have is that I am just at user level in a
> linux box and I do not have administrative rights.

You can define a generic mode in your ~/.emacs.  If things get larger
or you want to use code from other sources, you can always create your
own elisp directory in your home and add that to your load-path
variable in ~/.emacs.


Hope this helps, benny