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From: Jistan Idiot <jistanid...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: mode for editing ldif files?
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On Saturday, April 7, 2012 7:51:23 PM UTC-4, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> Jistan Idiot <jistanid...@gmail.com> writes:
>=20
> > That port http://www.broadinstitute.org/~ilya/rx.el also doesn't
> > work. It dies with:
> >
> >  Symbol's function definition is void: modify-coding-system-alist
>=20
> I think this was added in XEmacs 21.5 (i.e., the current beta).  So
> you could try downloading and building the latest; it's pretty
> stable.
>=20
> mike

Ok so I am trying the beta=20

It still complains about ldap-mode.el and rx.el saying:

rx `any' requires string, character, char pair or char class args

With this failure I'm guessing there isn't a version of rx that works with =
any version of xemacs. =20

I'm start to think I might need to change strategies.  I tried the aforemen=
tioned ldap-mode.el in emacs and it only seems to highlight a set of hard c=
oded attributes (we have 100s of attributes and there's no way I'm going to=
 hard code that).  So maybe I need to throw that stuff out and attempt to c=
reate the mode from scratch. =20

Somehow vim gets it right.  "dn: foo" is highlighted in one color and then =
all the attribute names are in another and finally the values are in a thir=
d color.  Of course comments are done correctly too.  It would seem you onl=
y need to figure out 4 regular expressions and tell xemacs to use a specifi=
c color for each one.

So it should be doable in xemacs right?  So I guess I need to be pointed in=
 the direction of a tutorial on creating a new mode in xemacs. =20

Thanks in advance.=20