Re: How to enable the syntax highlighting for comments within files having a specific extension?

["A.Politz" <politza@googlemail.com>]

On Jul 16, 3:13 pm, bj <gento_distef...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Here is the jou-mode.el file which I built on the basis of your
> tutorials:
[...]
>
> 2) I don't need the keywords, but if I remove the relevant entries in
> the jou-mode.el file
>    (i.e. lines 9-12, 17), the commented lines are no longer in red.
>
> 3) if the comment string "/" is in the middle of a line, like the
> division sign in an expression,
>    then the characters to the right of it are turned into red. Do you
> know how to avoid this?
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> gento


Use define-generic-mode, dude.

(define-generic-mode bj-journal-mode
  '("//") ;; use double backslash
  '("your" "keywords")
  nil
  '("\\.jou\\'")
  nil)

The comment/uncomment functions come for free, usually on M-; .

I doubt, that the comment starter really is a single backslash,
because that would be silly.

-ap