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Re: Programming Syntax Mode
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: Programming Syntax Mode |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:05:14 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
briwilson2002@hotmail.com (Brian Wilson) writes:
> I am using emacs at college to program in C and C++ and note that
> there is syntax highlighting to allow me to see reserved words, etc.
> Is there a way I can start emacs from the shell with some kind of
> arguments so that I can not only have highlighting on by default,
M-x customize-group RET font-lock RET
Toggle the Global Font Lock option and don't forget to save your
changes.
> but so that I can decide which language to do it in? Something like
> 'emacs --lang=cpp --highlighting --color' ?
Emacs usually guesses the mode from the filename. For example, foo.c
is a C file and foo.cpp is a C++ file.
If this is wrong for a specific file (*.h is used for C and C++
files), you can put "-*- c++ -*-" into the first line of the
file (sans quotes). It could be in a comment, like so:
/* -*- c++ -*- */
I guess it's obvious how to change it for C files.
kai
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