Re: New Vim Syntax File!

[Michael McNamara <nospam@thanx>]

Davor Cengija writes:
 > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
 > 
 > >On Tuesday 29 February 2000, at 17 h 56, the keyboard of Davor Cengija 
 > ><davor@linuxfan.com> wrote:
 > >
 > >> 	Vim has that possibility to color certain parts of the file
 > >> 	being edited differently, according to the content. Take
 > >> 	php.vim (or is it php3.vim?). If you turn on html and sql
 > >> 	syntax coloring, you can have everything between <?php and ?>
 > >> 	colored by php3 rules, 
 > >
 > >Does anyone know how to do so in Emacs? I'm interested.
 > 
 > 	It's not possible, as one of the (x)emacs authors answered on
 > 	my question asked in local Linux group.

 Nothing is impossible in emacs.

The font lock sequence can be a regular expression, or a function!
and the function could comprehend regions delimited just as the vim
code does.

I say all this, and I am the author of the Verilog HDL emacs mode;
however, I too, just use the html highlighting....  Too busy, and the
existing bit works good enough form me *sigh*

I'd be happy to advise someone wanting to dive in...


 
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