Re: help with font locking

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Mark P wrote:
> I'm trying to edit my .emacs file so that in c++-mode a frequently used 
> user-defined type "Coord" is highlighted like any built-in type (int, 
> bool, etc.)  I searched around for a while but found only very limited 
> information.  The best I could produce was the following:
> 
> ;; customize font-locking
> (font-lock-add-keywords
> 'c++-mode
> '(("\\<\\(Coord\\)" 1 font-lock-type-face)
>   ) )
> 
> This sort of works.  In a statement like:
> 
> Coord fcn (Coord x);
> 
> "Coord" is highlighted twice, but neither "fcn" nor "x" is.  In a normal 
> statement like:
> 
> int fcn (int x)
> 
> "int" is highlighted as are "fcn" and "x".
> 
> Can anyone suggest a way to make the behavior for Coord match that for 
> int.  Any links to detail documentation on how this works would also be 
> appreciated.  (For example, why all the quotes and slashes in the .emacs 
> code?)

Maybe http://simon.nitro.dk/dotfiles/emacs/ctypes.el is what you need:

(autoload 'ctypes-define-type "ctypes"
   "Add a new TYPE to current major mode and inform font-lock." t)

(add-hook 'c++-mode-hook
           (lambda ()
             (ctypes-define-type "Coord")))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers