Re: [newbie] Syntax Support

Sergei Gnezdov wrote:

> I spent quite a bit of time lately trying to figure
> out how to add support for a custom syntax to xemacs. 
> The documentation contains only a couple paragraphs in
>  about syntax table and they are not very clear to me.
> 
> My immediate goal is to highlight raw email message
> text:
> -------------------
> From: value
> Subject: <some text>
> 
> Body goes here.
> >> previous post
> >>> another post
> -------------------
> 
> I know that you'd say that I can use GNUS for
> newsreader support and MH for email support, but they
> (GNUS) don't provide syntax highlighting outside of
> their scope.
> 
> Proprietary file formats are another area were it is
> nice to be able to write a simple syntax highlighting.

Syntax highlighting is handled by the font-lock package.

"C-h a font-lock RET" and "M-x find-library RET font-lock RET" are
probably good places to start.

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Glynn Clements <[email protected]>