Re: write your own emacs mode

[Joerg Schuster <js@cis.uni-muenchen.de>]

drfransch@netscape.net (F. Schaefer) writes:

> Since you're talking about it: I need to get 
> brackets such as ')' and a '|' at the beginning
> or end of a pattern in generic mode. 

I am not sure if I really understand what you want, but the following
expression matches expressions that are surrounded by '(' and ')'.


"\\(\([^\)]*\)\\)"

Mode:

(define-generic-mode 'test-mode
  '("%")
  nil
  '(
    ("\\(\([^\)]*\)\\)"  1 'font-lock-warning-face)   ; bracketed expression
    )
  nil
  nil
  "Mode for testing mode definitions.")