[Howm-eng 17] Re: Question/Feature Requests

[khi at users.sourceforge.jp (khi at users.sourceforge.jp)]

Hi.

At Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:23:30 -0500,
tongconsulting at gmail.com wrote:
> While using howm taking notes, I'd like to have some simple markup
> capability, such as those available from emacs-wiki/Muse mode (e.g.,
> "_underline_" "*emphasize*").

Here is an example.

;; _underline_ and *emphasize*
(setq howm-user-font-lock-keywords
      '(("\\(^\\|\\s-\\)\\(_\\w+?_\\)\\(\\s-\\|$\\)"
         2 'underline prepend)
        ("\\(^\\|\\s-\\)\\([*]\\w+?[*]\\)\\(\\s-\\|$\\)"
         2 'font-lock-comment-face prepend)))

Ideally, I believe that howm itself should not offer any
formatting/markup rules, so that you can combine howm with your
favorite writing style.  It's the first motivation why I'm not
satisfied with emacs-wiki and I began to make my own tool.

Since howm-mode is a minor-mode, it can be used with any other modes
theoretically.  Indeed, I personally use rd-mode, rd-mode-plus, and
outline-minor-mode for markup and outline support, together with howm.
  http://lists.sourceforge.jp/mailman/archives/howm-eng/2005/000014.html

Other combinations are not tested sufficiently.  If you have any
trouble with outline+howm or org+howm, please let me know.

-- 
khi at users.sourceforge.jp