From: Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Enhancing font-locking in emacs-lisp-mode
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:37:28 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc0b5f34-7c99-41c6-b6d8-63643017ec69@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com> (raw)
Hi again!
Some thoughts regarding enhancements of font-locking in emacs-lisp-
mode; I believe the readability of emacs-lisp code would be greatly
enhanced by also highlighting the following cases
- arguments to function/macro definition (defun/defmacro) in font-lock-
variable-name-face
- local variable names defined by the let/let* statement
- function name part of function calls: I guess this is hard/
(impossible?) to get right for all cases but maybe we could somehow
reuse `functionp' in the MATCHER to better filter out the more
relevant cases?
Does anyone have any tips on how to go about implementing this. For
the second case I believe I have to use a function matcher in font-
lock-keywords that navigates in the sub-expression structure (forward/
backward-sexp, backward-up-list, down-list). I now know how regexp-
MATCHERs work. Does anyone have any good tutorial on how to design
these function-MATCHERS?
Is it adviced to solve this as an add-on or is it best to let the GNU
Emacs hackers add this functionality to lisp-mode.el?
/Nordlöw
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2008-06-05 19:37 Nordlöw [this message]
2008-06-05 22:02 ` Enhancing font-locking in emacs-lisp-mode Nikolaj Schumacher
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