Using styles for improved legibility

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2 total messages Started by Jim Thompson Wed, 03 Jun 1992 18:49

#1399

Author: Jim Thompson
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1992 18:49

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Does anyone here know of an epoch package that applies styles
selectively within a buffer, particularly to enhance code?  For example,
scan a C++ buffer and apply an italic style to comments and a bold style
to the keywords.  The comments should be relatively easy--you could use
the buffer's comment syntax to find them.

Jim
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Using styles for improved legibility

#1398

Author: Marc Andreessen
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

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Marc Andreessen
Epoch Development Team
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu

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