From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Customisation for Comments Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 21:19:11 +0100 Message-ID: <87zgmxrwao.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87czjttdmh.fsf@zoho.eu> <878ruhtcmb.fsf@zoho.eu> <_8nnLBMzH_CPdwBGJD5nvSCcTQn7F4nGwKrnU7o5DipOewQDZ_O7zsBU3xpSR5VzthpPII7FrZazGGcGbJKfjQK38iFcYRsWdNfu_xQ4w9c=@protonmail.com> <874k55tbh4.fsf@zoho.eu> <1AU0hzdbC1U_BvDCtw-1uDqhnf1mJ6xRlz3jOEWF5lh0TqU56XVQMibCipjQWArxTsUkrAktC2AGvrO1sZed-koBvPMfXINA-mXowljXOh4=@protonmail.com> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40860"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:oh/DvegvQQPKo6I0mzGMfE1tYqY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 11 21:20:06 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nIcOk-000ANh-6z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2022 21:20:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37122 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nIcOi-0005eZ-Lj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:20:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47508) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nIcO1-0005eN-Lu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:19:21 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:53278) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nIcNz-0002P0-Nl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:19:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nIcNy-0009Sh-8Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2022 21:19:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:135903 Archived-At: goncholden wrote: >> then start with a function that increases the contrast by CON. > > I have done all that and introduced them into a minor-mode. > There are a number of minor-modes out there that do provide > font-lock customization. Extending a major-mode is not > simple, eg. a derived mode from prog-mode is used to make > a major-mode, like emacs-lisp-mode (which actually derives > from lisp-data-mode which derives from prog-mode). > This means that if I derive from prog-mode, I would need to > setup the syntax for the major-mode before I can change the > comment font-locking. Why do you need modes at all for that? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal