From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to define a comment syntax for files having a specific extension? Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:27:04 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87y7l9oobr.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <1175504010.137805.217560@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <1175527400.955307.302630@b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175589518 4882 80.91.229.12 (3 Apr 2007 08:38:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 08:38:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 03 10:38:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HYeX8-0001DM-Tp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:38:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HYeaF-0003mz-II for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:41:43 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!multikabel.net!feed20.multikabel.net!txtfeed2.tudelft.nl!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!feed.xsnews.nl!border-1.ams.xsnews.nl!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-08!sn-ams!sn-feed-ams-03!sn-post-ams-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rNjYCqIuYKNM8I0SwF5WOQagqQo= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 23 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146787 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42391 Archived-At: "gento" writes: >> You need to create a major mode for those types of files. >> Check out sample-mode.el > > Thank you Stefan. > > Is there a simplest way for reaching this scope, > for example by modifying the ~/.emacs file only? > If the only issue is defining what emacs things is a comment, couldn't youjust modify the syntax table and set the appropriate value to mark the comment character? If not, its *really* easy to define a derived mode. You could derive a specific mode for these files from text or fundamental mode. There is an example of a derived mode on the meacs wiki I think (http://www.emacswiki.org). tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au