Re: custom C highlighting / syntax coloring

[Javier Oviedo]

I use ctypes.el

"Chris Pickett" <chris.pickett@mail.mcgill.ca> wrote in message
news:mailman.3348.1048030940.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
> Hi,
>
> I like how CC Mode (for a .c or .h file) automatically recognizes words
> ending in '_t' as being types and highlights them and the corresponding
> declarations.  However, I am working on a large project with several
> other types.  I need help customizing emacs to recognize these other
> patterns as types.  I find it makes understanding the source, which I
> did not write, a lot easier.
>
> There are two classes:
>
> 1) most of the project-specific types start with '_svmt_' and so I would
> like to recognize all of those, and have emacs color them.
>
> 2) several specific words such are also types, such as 'jboolean',
> 'jint', 'jfloat', 'jobject', 'JNIEnv'.  There's probably about 20 or
> so.  These are static and unlikely to change as the project changes ...
> they are defined by the Java Native Interface specification.
>
> I managed to append '_t' to all words starting with '_svmt_', but the
> other developers don't like that solution.  It also doesn't solve the
> problem for the second class of types.
>
> I looked at the CC Mode source, and I suppose I could define a whole
> bunch more primitive types (solving problem number two), but I don't
> know how to set that in my .emacs file.
>
> Finally, although this isn't really needed, it would be neat if the
> highlighting worked only in certain directories.  Maybe my .emacs file
> could be modified to check for the presence of another highlighting file
> in whatever directory emacs is currently in, and if found change the C
> sub-mode (?) of CC Mode to recognize my extra types.
>
> Oh ... I'm using emacs 21.2.1, on 'woody' debian gnu/linux.
>
> Thanks very much,
> Chris Pickett
>
> P.S.  Please include my email address in the reply as I have not
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>
> P.P.S.  I looked through the list archives and did about 1-2 hours of
> searching / reading on Google, but still could not find anyone who had
> tried to do this.
>
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