Re: Customisation for Comments

[goncholden]

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On Thursday, February 10th, 2022 at 11:37 PM, fatiparty--- via Users list for 
the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:

> Feb 10, 2022, 10:59 by help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org:
>
> > Am using modus-vivendi theme to which I add a bold font for everything.
> >
> > I want a special customisation for comments, using normal weight, and 
> > having a keybinding that changes the
> >
> > contrast ratio between the comment colour and the background.
> >
> > Had started writing a minor mode, but this seems to be a non-standard 
> > implementation. What would be the
> >
> > appropriate way to customise comments as described. Any examples I can use?
>
> In the elisp manual you can find how the recommended way is to derive a mode 
> from anexisting one using define-derived-mode. If there is no closelyrelated 
> mode, you should inherit from either text-mode,special-mode, or prog-mode. 
> Ifnone of these are suitable, you can inherit from fundamental-mode.
>
> Although I have not done this myself, and so unaware of the details.

Have had a look at that.  But I need some examples if I am going to have a 
successful
implementation.  There is not much information except for listings of functions.

Would be most helpful to have a section about implementing derived-modes and 
minor-modes.