Ask HN: How do I customize code coloring in emacs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=613964

by andrewljohnson • 17 years ago

11 8 17 years ago

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I program Django/Python in emacs, and I would like things like {% comment %} FOO {% endcomment %} to turn orange.

How can I set up some colors for important Django template tags?

If you can give me a bit of example code, that would be great. A link to an example of this would be great too.

travisjeffery• 17 years ago

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=django+emacs

To change the color of a specific face in emacs, go to the face and do M-x set-face-foreground Return and put the color you want.

pookleblinky• 17 years ago

downvoted because he probably expected suggestions about which mode is best, etc. rather than snark

realrbman• 17 years ago

Emacs Django mode http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Emacs

spydez• 17 years ago

Download color-theme. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?ColorTheme

Choose one of the included themes that you like the most, and start customizing.

Personally, I like zenburn. http://www.brockman.se/software/zenburn/zenburn.el But that might be a bit heavy to start off with.

Or, the shortcut way, define some stuff in custom-set-faces. e.g.:

    (custom-set-faces
      ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
      ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
      ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
      ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
     '(paren-face-match-light ((t (:background "#5f5f5f" :foreground "#e37170" :weight ultra-bold))))
     '(paren-face-match ((t (:background "#5f5f5f" :foreground "#e37170" :weight ultra-bold))))
     '(paren-face-mismatch ((((class color)) (:background "#332323" :foreground "#e37170"))))
     '(paren-face-no-match ((((class color)) (:background "#332323" :foreground "#e37170"))))
     '(linum ((t (:foreground "#5f5f5f")))))

Of course, this all requires that your Django/Python mode has a face for the {% ... %} stuff. I've never done any Django work, so I'm not sure if it does. If it doesn't, you'll have to hack at the Django/Python mode some to define that face so you can color it.

daleharvey• 17 years ago

(color-theme-midnight)

is my preference

andrewljohnson• 17 years ago

Thanks for the note. I use nice faces for my JS, Python, HTML, and CSS. I just wasn't sure how to go about customizing.

I got this snippet, and I think I can take it from here:

  (defun django-highlight-comments ()
    (interactive "p")
    (highlight-regexp "{%.*?%}" 'hi-orange))
  (add-hook 'html-mode-hook 'django-highlight-comments)

jaaron• 17 years ago

I like the Tango Theme: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/color-theme-tango.el

capablanca• 17 years ago

instead of using a hack like highlight-regexp, perhaps it'd be better to place a bug or hack the mode itself :)

Ask HN: How do I customize code coloring in emacs?

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