new major mode doubts

[Luca Ferrari]

Hi all,
as an exercise I'm trying to implement my own major mode for a
programming language (dataflex, for what it matters). I'm following
the Mode Tutorial http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ModeTutorial and so far
I've the skeleton of the mode to work for me.
However, I've got a couple of doubts:

1) in the keyword list I specified a regexp for uppercase keywords as follows:

(defconst dataflex-font-lock-keywords-minimal
(list
'("\\<\\(BEGIN\\|E\\(?:LSE\\|ND\\)\\|FOR\\|IF\\|LOOP\\|MOVE\\|||T\\(?:HEN\\|O\\)\\|WHILE\\)\\>"
. font-lock-builtin-face )
'("\\('\\w*'\\)" . font-lock-variable-name-face) )
"Main (and minimal) highlighting for the Dataflex mode keywords" )

however my keywords could be camel case (therefore BEGIN, begin, bEgin
are all the same). Do I have to specify upper and lower case words
individually (avoiding the mess of the camel case) or is there a
smarter way to do it (e.g., checking the font lock against lowercased
words)?

2) the commenting is behaving in a strange manner: I've c++ comments,
therefore // .... and so I've defined the following:
(defun dataflex-comment-dwim (arg)
"Comment (in/out) a Dataflex piece of source code. It is based on comment-dwin
of newcomment.el"
(interactive "*P")
(require 'newcomment)
(let ( (comment-start "//") (comment-end "") )
(comment-dwim arg)))

but while it works for M-; comment, commenting out awhole region
causes each line to be included into a couple of // as

a line of code

becoming

// a line of code //

it seems as it comments out the region and for each line places an
empty comment at the end. Any idea on what I'm missing?

Thanks,
Luca

[Luca Ferrari]

> 2) the commenting is behaving in a strange manner: I've c++ comments,
> therefore // .... and so I've defined the following:
> (defun dataflex-comment-dwim (arg)
> "Comment (in/out) a Dataflex piece of source code. It is based on comment-dwin
> of newcomment.el"
> (interactive "*P")
> (require 'newcomment)
> (let ( (comment-start "//") (comment-end "") )
> (comment-dwim arg)))

I found a problem with another assignment to comment-start and
comment-end that clashes with the above, so now this problem is fixed!

Luca

[Doug Lewan]

WRT Possible camel case: RE-matching in emacs is generally case-insensitive unless you make case-fold-search nil. So, you should get what you want for free.

,Douglas
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> 2) the commenting is behaving in a strange manner: I've c++ comments,
> therefore // .... and so I've defined the following:
> (defun dataflex-comment-dwim (arg)
> "Comment (in/out) a Dataflex piece of source code. It is based on
> comment-dwin
> of newcomment.el"
> (interactive "*P")
> (require 'newcomment)
> (let ( (comment-start "//") (comment-end "") )
> (comment-dwim arg)))
>

[Aurélien Aptel]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Luca Ferrari <fluc...@infinito.it> wrote:
> (list

> '("\\<\\(BEGIN\\|E\\(?:LSE\\|ND\\)\\|FOR\\|IF\\|LOOP\\|MOVE\\|||T\\(?:HEN\\|O\\)\\|WHILE\\)\\>"

> . font-lock-builtin-face )
> '("\\('\\w*'\\)" . font-lock-variable-name-face) )
> "Main (and minimal) highlighting for the Dataflex mode keywords" )

I don't know much about writing modes but I think you should use
either `rx' or `regexp-opt` for this kind of regex.

[Dmitry Gutov]

Luca Ferrari <fluc...@infinito.it> writes:

> Hi all,
> as an exercise I'm trying to implement my own major mode for a
> programming language (dataflex, for what it matters). I'm following
> the Mode Tutorial http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ModeTutorial and so far
> I've the skeleton of the mode to work for me.
> However, I've got a couple of doubts:
>
> 1) in the keyword list I specified a regexp for uppercase keywords as follows:
>
> (defconst dataflex-font-lock-keywords-minimal

> (list
> '("\\<\\(BEGIN\\|E\\(?:LSE\\|ND\\)\\|FOR\\|IF\\|LOOP\\|MOVE\\|||T\\(?:HEN\\|O\\)\\|WHILE\\)\\>"
> . font-lock-builtin-face )
> '("\\('\\w*'\\)" . font-lock-variable-name-face) )
> "Main (and minimal) highlighting for the Dataflex mode keywords" )
>

> however my keywords could be camel case (therefore BEGIN, begin, bEgin
> are all the same). Do I have to specify upper and lower case words
> individually (avoiding the mess of the camel case) or is there a
> smarter way to do it (e.g., checking the font lock against lowercased
> words)?

See the `font-lock-defaults' doc. The third element is CASE-FOLD, and
this value is assigned to `font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search', which
also see.

[Luca Ferrari]

> See the `font-lock-defaults' doc. The third element is CASE-FOLD, and
> this value is assigned to `font-lock-keywords-case-fold-search', which
> also see.

Thanks, I missed it.

Luca