font locking messages

font locking messages

[Sebastian Luque]

Hello,

Messages in some groups I read contain lots of code in a language typical
of that group. Searching for a way to font-lock messages in these groups
according to a designated mode, I only found one reference from two years
ago where it was concluded such functionality was not available. Have
there been any changes since then?

Thanks in advance,
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Sebastian P. Luque

Re: font locking messages

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Sebastian Luque <spluque@gmail.com> writes:

> Messages in some groups I read contain lots of code in a language typical
> of that group. Searching for a way to font-lock messages in these groups
> according to a designated mode, I only found one reference from two years
> ago where it was concluded such functionality was not available. Have
> there been any changes since then?

Not that I know of, but I don't know of much.

Someone would have to write a computer language guessing library that
could be applied to arbitrary text that would say "this section is
language X and this section is language Y".  It doesn't sound trivial
to make.  I mean, guessing that a buffer contains, say, PHP isn't very
difficult, but saying that "the PHP begins here and stops here, and
this isn't code" might be more difficult.

Perhaps.

I think it sounds like an interesting problem, though.  

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