🚀 go-pugleaf

   Date: Tue, 3 Mar 92 19:11:15 EST
   From: anderson@julio.sanders.lockheed.com (Kirk S. Anderson)

         I noticed today that Simon Kaplan (cs.uiuc.edu) replied to someone's
   posting in comp.emacs hyping Epoch. I've been using it about two months now
   and love it. My question has to do with the availability of the two contrib
   files for Epoch mentioned.

         1) put your programs in a "highlight-by-comment" mode
         2) put your programs in a "highlight-by-reserved-word" mode

For starters, try anonymous FTP to archive.cis.ohio-state.edu and pick
up /pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/epoch/tek-epoch-stuff-1.1.tar.Z; this
is a general multipurpose highlighting package for source code, the
info documentation browser, etc.  It's a really nice package.

Then, if you're really daring, try anonymous FTP to ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu
and pick up the files in /outgoing/marca/marc-hilite; this is drop-in
replacement for the tek-src-hilite functions from tek-epoch-stuff that
provides the 'highlight-by-reserved-word' functionality (actually,
lists of regular expressions on a per-mode basis).  It's not very
polished, but I use it all the time and it works for me.

I _believe_ marc-hilite is the only general-purpose source code
highlighter that handles more than just comments; I'd love for someone
to contradict me on this, but so far no one has.

Hope this helps,
Marc

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Marc Andreessen
Software Tools Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu