From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jakub Moskal Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Highlighting unsupported syntax Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:19:24 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201123703 15049 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2008 21:28:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:28:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 23 22:28:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JHn8o-0002F9-Kx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:28:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHn8O-0004rB-MN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:27:48 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!f47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.162.250.6 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1201115965 28128 127.0.0.1 (23 Jan 2008 19:19:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:19:25 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=68.162.250.6; posting-account=y87QCwoAAACNgB_C5LvEQSbqIdH3iyLu User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155488 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:27:19 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50898 Archived-At: Hi, I'm writing some code in Specware (www.specware.org), language that doesn't have much IDE support. Working with lengthy files without syntax highlighting is extremely difficult. Specware packages come with support for Windows version of XEmacs (among other features, they enable syntax highlighting). Now, I'm working on a Mac (10.5.1) machine and I can run Specware, but I can't get the syntax highlighting to work, there's no XEmacs for Mac. I tried adding syntax highlighting to Aquamacs by using provided XEmacs extensions, but without much success. I don't have much experience with emacs, but I'm guessing there should be some relatively easy way to extend it's support for highlighting. Can anyone help me out? Should I try to convert XEmacs packages to Aquamacs (how)? Use different distribution of Aquamacs (like Carbon Emacs)? Or write my own highlighting extension - and if so - how? I had an impression that most new languages use emacs as their first IDE, but perhaps emacs isn't the way to go? Thanks a lot for any help! Jakub