Re: editor with syntax highlighting for GTK+/GNOME API

[Paul Davis <pbd Op Net>]

>> >Thanks Alfons,
>> >but it doesnt hightlight GTK+/GNOME API, it does for regular C, etc.
>> 
>> the GTK+ and GNOME API's are written in C. what on earth does it mean
>> to "highlight" the API of a particular library?
>
>I know what he's asking for.  I used to use a basic editor for the
>macintosh called FutureBasic that highlight all the macintosh system calls
>as well as the reserved words.

OK. For emacs:

     (font-lock-add-keywords
      'c-mode
      '(("gtk_widget_new" 1 font-lock-function-name-face t)
        ("gtk_widget_whatever" 1 font-lock-function-name-face t)
	....
	("GtkWidget" 1 font-lock-keyword-face t)
	("GtkFrame" 1 font-lock-keyword-face t)
	....
	))

By using etags to build a list of function names, then sed/awk/perl to
transform this into an elisp statement like the one above, the job
could be done extremely quickly.

I don't know how quick emacs would handle this for a library with
hundreds of functions but I imagine it would work pretty well.

--p (who prefers his source code raw, not burnt to a multicolored crisp)