From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jorgen Grahn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: foo-font-lock-keywords (was Re: cc-mode in emacs 23.2 goes into infinte loop) Date: 23 Jan 2011 14:05:20 GMT Message-ID: References: <1cb4543e-859f-40b2-b72f-460e2de06b35@w2g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295832335 10824 80.91.229.12 (24 Jan 2011 01:25:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:25:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 24 02:25:31 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PhBBI-0000uM-MJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:25:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48933 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PhBBG-0005Jj-Mq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:25:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 70 Original-X-Trace: individual.net JAwJvRRtiuAVpz+5pJESOAmyPgf9jTcIneQsyp3KJ3bqWt/Utc Cancel-Lock: sha1:p1SsIU8yaDC82IV2jsTEM77pdiM= User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184512 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:24:34 -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:78687 Archived-At: On Sun, 2011-01-23, rusi wrote: > On Jan 23, 3:41 am, jdiam...@snipthis.AcadiaU.ca wrote: >> I have the following file... > > snipped > >>     (setq zsd-c-font-lock-keywords-3 nil) > > No I dont have an answer (and please excuse my hijacking your question > for mine :-) ) You should at least have changed the subject line. > but do you know where I can find out about things like > foo-font-lock-keywords-{1,2,3}? > > Both C and lisp modes are too deep-structured for me to easily figure > out... > > IOW just looking for a typical, simple language mode that uses font- > lock correctly... Here is a really simple one. Works for me -- if major things are missing or wrong, I haven't noticed. I had to google around and experiment a lot to get it to this state. ;;; refer-mode.el -- Major mode for refer(1) files ;; ;; Copyright (C) 2005 Jörgen Grahn ;; All right reserved. ;; ;; $Id: refer-mode.el,v 1.3 2005/10/30 17:08:15 grahn Exp $ ;; $Name: $ (defconst refer-font-lock-keywords '(("^%Z.*$" . font-lock-comment-face) ("^%[ATQ] .+$" . font-lock-keyword-face) ("^%[K] .+$" . font-lock-string-face) ) "Syntax highlighting for Refer mode.") (define-derived-mode refer-mode text-mode "Refer" "Major mode for editing refer(1) bibliographies. This is merely text mode, plus some colorization. A subjective quick guide to the keywords: %T title %D year of publication %A author %I issuer/publisher %Q corporate author %C city of publication [...] Compare with the standard, but obsolete, bib-mode, which handles the approximately same file format. (Oddly enough, Bib-mode handles refer(1) files; refbib and refer.el handle BibTeX.)" (setq comment-start "%Z") (setq comment-start-skip "%Z\\s-*") (set (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults) '((refer-font-lock-keywords refer-font-lock-keywords refer-font-lock-keywords refer-font-lock-keywords) t))) (provide 'refer-mode) -- // Jorgen Grahn O o .