On 19/01/02 Manoj Srivastava did speaketh: > - User Option: sgml-markup-faces > A list of markup to face mappings. Each element looks like > `(MARKUP-TYPE . FACE)'. Possible values for MARKUP-TYPE is: > `comment' comment declaration > `doctype' doctype declaration > `end-tag' end-tag > `ignored' ignored marked section > `ms-start' marked section end, if not ignored > `ms-end' marked section start, if not ignored > `pi' processing instruction > `sgml' SGML declaration > `start-tag' start-tag > `entity' entity reference > `shortref' short reference
Ok. I got the reply to the bug officially as well, thanks for that. I'll
play with this, and RTFM since it's obvious that I should have done that
already. ;-)
Just to ensure that I understand the limitation here, let me explain it
back to you and you can tell me if I'm right.
Normally the font-lock faces are set during initialization of emacs,
either from default values or from the user's ~/.emacs file (like in my case).
However, psgml-mode can't use font-lock because instead of knowing the
patterns to specify to font-lock when the mode initializes, it must first
parse the DTD for the language being used, and pull out the keywords from it.
Why is it that this newly-parsed information cannot be used to make a new
dynamic call to font-lock? I understood that lisp was quite a
dynamically-bound language and such tricks as common in Perl and Python were
done much earlier in Lisp. Forgive my ignorance of the font-lock API. As I
understand it, you can call font-lock, passing it a list of regexp patterns
and corresponding faces for that pattern. I don't follow why updating the
patterns and re-fontifying can't be done.
> I meant for psgml's modes. As for perl, well, Perl syntax is
> hard to parse for anything but, umm, perl itself. I wouldn't plcae
> blame on indent region or cperl mode for that ;-)
And occasionally not even by perl. :) The fact that it makes sense to me
is often a source of fear and trepidation that perhaps I've gone too far into
a world that's going to suck me in and never let me out. Strangely, I like it.
Thanks for the help Manoj,
Mike
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