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Article #1398Using styles for improved legibility
From: Marc Andreessen
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1992 11:47
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1992 11:47
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Yup; a relevant section of the Epoch FAQ follows...
G-1: How do I highlight regions of text in a buffer with different styles?
While the current Epoch distribution contain plenty of support for
zones and styles, the enabling mechanisms that make syntax-directed
highlighting possible, no intrinsic support for such highlighting is
provided. This situation may change in subsequent releases of Epoch.
Three packages that provide varying degrees of support for
syntax-directed highlighting are:
tek-epoch-stuff-1.1.tar.Z (available from archive.cis.ohio-state.edu
or ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu, see below), which supports comment highlighting
in source code as well as support for the Info documentation browser,
various mail and news packages, and manual pages.
marc-hilite.tar.Z (available from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu, see below), which
is an extension to tek-epoch-stuff made by Yours Truly to allow
per-mode regexp-based highlighting. Thus, you can have all
#define's/#endif's in red, setq's and defun's in green,
int/float/double's in yellow, '-->'s in purple, and so on.
(A very preliminary version of a reimplementation of marc-hilite,
called Lightbrite, can be found here also; it includes partial
documentation. Hopefully Lightbrite proper will be completed
sometime this summer.)
hilit.el.Z (most recent version was posted to gnu.emacs.souces and is
available from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu, see below), which provides
source-code comment and regexp highlighting.
...
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu (141.142.20.50)
/outgoing/marca/epoch
Cheers,
Marc
--
Marc Andreessen
Epoch Development Team
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc7ee,8fd0cfae5772b545,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfc7ee,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-06-03 16:24:54 PST Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!convex!darwin.sura.net!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu!marca From: marca@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) Subject: Using styles for improved legibility Message-ID: <9206040147.AA12492@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu> Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet References: <9206031849.AA22775@se33.wg2.waii.com> Distribution: gnu Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1992 11:47:36 GMT Lines: 46