Re: custom C highlighting / syntax coloring

[Peter Boettcher <boettcher@ll.mit.edu>]

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Chris Pickett <chris.pickett@mail.mcgill.ca> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I like how CC Mode (for a .c or .h file) automatically recognizes
> words ending in '_t' as being types and highlights them and the
> corresponding declarations.  However, I am working on a large project
> with several other types.  I need help customizing emacs to recognize
> these other patterns as types.  I find it makes understanding the
> source, which I did not write, a lot easier.

Try the package "ctypes.el".  It does exactly what you ask.  I found a
copy here:

http://www.emacswiki.org/elisp/ctypes.el


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Peter Boettcher
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