From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: syntax highlighting on the fly Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:43:24 +0100 Organization: my virtual residence Message-ID: <87zjl2kzdv.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394193957 2464 80.91.229.3 (7 Mar 2014 12:05:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 12:05:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 07 13:06:05 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WLtXQ-0001gM-6D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 13:06:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35912 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLtXP-0000ch-Ns for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 07:06:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLtVi-0005pA-BC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 07:04:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLtVb-00057f-DJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 07:04:18 -0500 Original-Received: from client-194-42-186-216.muenet.net ([194.42.186.216]:44476 helo=yun.yagibdah.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLtVb-00057J-6g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 07:04:11 -0500 Original-Received: from lee by yun.yagibdah.de with local (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1WLtVV-0007Rl-VG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 13:04:05 +0100 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 194.42.186.216 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96290 Archived-At: Hi, is something available with emacs to do to syntax highlighting on the fly? "On the fly" means: You have a mode with syntax highlighting which does most of the highlighting. Now you work on a file (source code for some program) in a buffer with your mode enabled, and you decide that for this particular file, you want "foobar" to be highlighted. You=C2=B4d have to somehow tell emacs to do this, for example by adding a comment like // highlight: foobar to your file. You could also do it like #define foobar 25 (since you=C2=B4re using #define anyway) and have all occurances of "foobar" highlighted. It=C2=B4s probably possible to write something for this, and I wouldn=C2=B4= t even know where to start. Perhaps it=C2=B4s already built in and I only don=C2= =B4t know about it? --=20 Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power.