At Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:18:27 +1000, Andy Eager wrote: > I have designed the language & written an interpreter for it, but would > like emacs to do some syntax highlighting for me.
After you've written the rest of your major mode (which gives details like syntax definitions (what constitutes a "word", etc), any relevant functions/keybindings, etc) then you need to give a list of keywords/regexps to highlight. On XEmacs, you need to put a `font-lock-defaults' property on the major mode symbol, on FSF Emacs you put an entry into `font-lock-defaults-alist'. Luckily its the same entry in both cases (unless you use exotic features). See the comments and docstrings in font-lock.el, particularly for `font-lock-defaults'. Start reading the lispref.info section on writing major modes and go from there - its not too hard if you're already familiar with elisp. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
