outline minor mode font lock

outline minor mode font lock

[mr.sparkle]

Anyone know how to get the different levels of outline-minor-mode
colorized like outline major mode?

Re: outline minor mode font lock

[Stefan Monnier]

> Anyone know how to get the different levels of outline-minor-mode
> colorized like outline major mode?

I guess something like

   (add-hook 'outline-minor-mode-hook
     (lambda () (font-lock-add-keywords nil outline-font-lock-keywords)))

but it might depend on the major mode with which you use it, with the
version of Emacs you use, on the way you turn on font-lock-mode, on
how you want to the major-mode patterns and the outline-mode patterns
to interact, ...
Feel free to give more info.


        Stefan

Re: outline minor mode font lock

[mr.sparkle]

>> Anyone know how to get the different levels of outline-minor-mode
>> colorized like outline major mode?

>I guess something like

 >  (add-hook 'outline-minor-mode-hook
 >    (lambda () (font-lock-add-keywords nil outline-font-lock-keywords)))

>but it might depend on the major mode with which you use it, with the
>version of Emacs you use, on the way you turn on font-lock-mode, on
>how you want to the major-mode patterns and the outline-mode patterns
>to interact, ...
>Feel free to give more info.


>        Stefan
Thanks for the reply. I use outline-minor-mode mostly in
emacs-wiki(love it!) and todo-mode buffers. It's totally
functional,just not colorized. I tried your suggestion, but I couldn't
get it to work satisfactorily. It seems to work in records-mode but
not in wiki or todo modes. Also it seems to randomly colorize my
.emacs when I view that in outline-minor-mode. It's not a major issue,
but it would be nice to have the outline headers colorized in
outline-minor-mode.

Re: outline minor mode font lock

[Stefan Monnier]

> Thanks for the reply. I use outline-minor-mode mostly in
> emacs-wiki(love it!) and todo-mode buffers. It's totally
> functional,just not colorized. I tried your suggestion, but I couldn't
> get it to work satisfactorily. It seems to work in records-mode but
> not in wiki or todo modes. Also it seems to randomly colorize my
> .emacs when I view that in outline-minor-mode. It's not a major issue,
> but it would be nice to have the outline headers colorized in
> outline-minor-mode.

What I posted adds stuff to existing colorization, so if wiki-mode
or todo-mode does not do any colorizing, it won't help.
Also patterns by default do not override each other, so if the major mode's
patterns and outline-minor-mode's pattern can be highlight an area,
by default only one of the two will get its way.
On the other hand, what you can do is take a look at
outline-font-lock-keywords, and massage it to better behave in a minor
mode setting (use the docstring of font-lock-keywords to help you
decypher the thing).


        Stefan