Re: Highlight parent if--else

[Will Chang]

both sql and ruby use if..else.... I think this feature is very useful.

But I just don't how to implement it. I am new comer to emacs.

Someone can give me more details to implement it? Thanks.

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Nikolaj Schumacher <n_schumacher@web.de> wrote:

Xah <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jul 30, 6:30 pm, "Will Chang" <changwei...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Can we highlight IF, ELSE END IF just like highlight-parentheses?
>

> However, it is possible to write one that does that by using elisp's
> syntax table.

I don't think so.  Syntax tables can only match single characters.

One would have to write versions of `up-list' and maybe `forward-sexp'.
The rest can be done with existing code.


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher