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Re: C++ mode.
From: |
Rob Thorpe |
Subject: |
Re: C++ mode. |
Date: |
28 May 2003 01:18:04 -0700 |
K Hollingworth <kh25@york.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:<bb01p9$qhu$1@pump1.york.ac.uk>...
> Rob Thorpe <robert.thorpe@antenova.com> wrote:
> > K Hollingworth <kh25@york.ac.uk> wrote in message
> > news:<badelr$paa$2@pump1.york.ac.uk>...
> >> According to emacs I have
> >>
> >> GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of Fri Mar 16 2001 on
> >> porky.devel.redhat.com
> >>
> >> I would like to customise c++ mode so that lines starting std::cerr are
> >> marked in a different red as most of them are for debugging and it
> >> would be nice to be able to spot them easily. Is this possible? It
> >> would be acceptable to mark everything in the std namespace in red.
> >>
> >> I'm a bit of a newbie with emacs so apologies as I don't know all the
> >> terminology yet!
>
> > M-x highlight-phrase RET std:cerr RET
>
> > In the buffer when you need it would be what I would do.
>
> Do I need to load another package to get that? Emacs says "no match"
> when I try that command and if I try matching "highlight" I only get the
> following completions:
>
> highlight-changes-mode highlight-changes-next-change
> highlight-changes-previous-change highlight-changes-remove-highlight
> highlight-changes-rotate-faces highlight-compare-with-file
Sorry about that, this function is new in Emacs 21 I hadn't noticed.
Look for hi-lock.el if you can't use Emacs 21. I can't find it
elsewhere I'm afraid. You probably could adapt C++ mode, but I don't
know how.