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Re: syntax highlighting for comments
From: |
gento |
Subject: |
Re: syntax highlighting for comments |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:29:14 -0700 (PDT) |
User-agent: |
G2/1.0 |
Thank you very much Bruno!
I'm using this
(add-hook 'find-file-hooks
(lambda ()
(when (string-match "\\.jou$" (buffer-file-name))
(setq comment-start "/")
(font-lock-add-keywords nil '("\\(/.*\\)$" (1 font-lock-comment-
face)))
(font-lock-mode)
)
)
)
and it works.
Have a nice day
Bruno Barbier wrote:
> On 2009-09-15, bj <gento_distefano@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > any idea?
> >
> > On 8 Set, 10:26, gento <gento_distef...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I'm using emacs to edit journal text files *.jou, for which commented
> >> lines
> >> start with the character "/".
> >>
> >> I apply the comment syntax for the "*.jou" files by adding to
> >> the .emacs file
> >> the lines
> >>
> >> (add-hook 'find-file-hooks
> >> (lambda ()
> >> (when (string-match "\\.jou$" (buffer-file-name))
> >> (setq comment-start "/")
> >> )
> >> )
> >> )
> >>
> >> Now I would also like to turn the text of the commented lines into
> >> red, and for this
> >> I added the line
> >>
> >> (font-lock-add-keywords nil '("\\(/.*\\)$" (1 font-lock-comment-
> >> face)))
> >>
> >> which unfortunately doesn’t work.
> >>
> >> Does anybody know where the mistake is?
> >> Many thanks
> >>
> >> gento
> >
>
>
> I don't have any major-mode for "*.jou" files; if you don't have
> either, the following should work for you.
>
> (add-hook 'find-file-hooks
> (lambda ()
> (when (string-match "\\.jou$" (buffer-file-name))
> )
> (font-lock-add-keywords nil
> '("\\(/.*\\)$"
> (1
> font-lock-comment-face)))
> (font-lock-mode)
> )
> )
>
> So, in short:
> 1) Your line with `font-lock-add-keywords' must be evaluated in the
> right buffer.
> 2) And you have to turn `font-lock-mode' on in the buffer for
> fontification to happen.
>
>
> If you want to add more features, you should probably take the time to
> define your own major mode "jou-mode":
>
> (info "(emacs)Major modes")
> (info "(elisp)Major modes")
>
>
> PS: I don't know what "jou" files are, but, if you are writing your
> own journal file, you should give `org-mode' a try; it's a
> wonderful addictive tool to take notes, to make plan and publish
> everything in LaTeX, HTML, etc.
> And it is included in recent versions of GNU Emacs.
>
> http://orgmode.org/