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Export code blocks in org-mode with minted environment
You will need to tell Org to
Use minted for listings
Include minted in the default package list
Change the compilation switches to accommodate for minted:
(setq org-latex-listings 'minted
...
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Github-flavored markdown mode: syntax highlight code blocks
Native syntax highlighting of code blocks is now part of the current development version of Markdown mode. Specifically, it works for those GFM or tilde-fenced code blocks for which the language name ...
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Can I highlight Lisp like this?
With show-paren-mode you can highlight the whole expression. You need to have the following code in your init file. You can try different style and choose what you like to highlight.
(show-paren-mode ...
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Better syntax-higlighting for member variables and function calls in cpp-mode
The Emacs one is actually better. Here's why, The purpose of syntax highlighting in text editors is not being pretty, but to make important code structures stand out.
If you look at the Emacs sample, ...
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Which mode to use for ECMAScript 6?
js2-mode supports all of this. It is available on GNU ELPA and MELPA for easy access.
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How to highlight specific keywords inside strings/quotes?
The following elisp snippet should do. The important details are:
Strings are handled by syntax highlighting and not by pattern matching (i.e., keyword highlighting). This has very high priority. So ...
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11
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Exporting highlighted source code to pdf in Org-Mode
Hey this answer solved my similar problem. A bit late but I had the same issue today.
As mentioned, I add the following code snipped to my .spacemacs/.emacs config:
(require 'org)
(require 'ox-latex)...
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How to highlight in different colors for variables inside `fstring` on python-mode
I think this will do it for Emacs versions < 27.1
(require 'python)
(setq python-font-lock-keywords
(append python-font-lock-keywords
'(;; this is the full string.
;; group ...
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How to get colored syntax highlighting of code blocks in asynchronous Org-mode exports to HTML?
With ox-html? See the docstring of org-html-htmlize-output-type.
Output type to be used by htmlize when formatting code snippets.
Choices are css to export the CSS selectors only,inline-css
to ...
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Fontify broken links in org-mode
In org-9 it might be as simple as this for file links:
(org-link-set-parameters
"file"
:face (lambda (path) (if (file-exists-p path) 'org-link 'org-warning)))
For internal links I don't know an ...
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9
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Is there a standard mode for .ini files?
conf-mode.el says:
This mode is designed to edit many similar varieties of Conf/Ini files and
Java properties. It started out from Aurélien Tisné's ini-mode.
conf-space-keywords were inspired ...
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8
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Highlight current line without changing colours
Just for reference, try
(set-face-attribute 'hl-line nil :inherit nil :background "gray6")
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Syntax highlighting for comments starting with specific sequence of characters
This is what I ended up going with:
(defface special-comment '((t (:foreground "#2aa198"))) "Cyan")
(font-lock-add-keywords
'clojure-mode '((";-;.*" 0 'special-comment t)))
";-;.*" is regex. 0 ...
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Better syntax-higlighting for member variables and function calls in cpp-mode
this seems to answer the member function bit of your question
(font-lock-add-keywords 'c++-mode
`((,(concat
"\\<[_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*\\>" ; Object identifier
"\\s *" ...
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How to syntax highlight Python f-strings so {...} uses regular code colors?
FWIW, I just pushed support for "proper" highlighting of f-strings in Emacs's master branch, so it will be available in Emacs-28 when that gets released (and is available in GNU ELPA's ...
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6
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minor mode to display long integers?
I did some searching and surprisingly couldn't find any existing minor modes that seemed to do this. I thought it would be a fun little project, however, so I've written a minimal minor mode (rainbow-...
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How to get semantic syntax highlighting on emacs for C/C++ code
color-identifiers-mode does this for variables, if I understand your question correctly. rainbo-identifiers-mode too, I think. Screenshot is from the former one.
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LaTeX Mode and Listings with $-signs?
Syntax highlighting would be correct if file parsing is enabled. First check whether the options suggested at the beginning of the AUCTeX manual are enabled:
(setq TeX-auto-save t)
(setq TeX-parse-...
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votes
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Line highlighting canceling out syntax highlighting
Basically, the hl-line face is defining a :foreground property, which is overriding the other foreground colors in your theme.
misterioso defines hl-line in terms of highlight using inheritance, and ...
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Treat shebang as a comment
Try
(modify-syntax-entry ?# ". 1" js-mode-syntax-table)
(modify-syntax-entry ?! ". 2b" js-mode-syntax-table)
Reference
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Highlight current line without changing colours
This is the case by default for me: hl-line-mode by default uses a face which only specifies a background color. That face is hl-line which by default just inherits from highlight. So maybe the ...
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Highlight current line without changing colours
This works for me, with this in my .emacs. See how the syntax colours are nicely preserved? (thx Yadoo86)
;; highlight line with the cursor, preserving the colours.
(set-face-attribute 'hl-line nil :...
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Adding new commands to the syntax highlighting of a language mode
You can do this using the function font-lock-add-keywords. It takes two arguments, the first is the major mode to extend. Alternatively, you can pass nil which mean the current buffer, which is useful ...
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Don't switch to math-mode when entering `$` in a `minted` environment
You can add minted environments to the latex-verbatim-environment variable:
M-x customize-variable latex-verbatim-environments, insert a new string "minted", and save your changes. You may need to ...
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votes
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Why does text surrounded by tildes in org mode turn grey
Tildes are used for marking something as code/monospace. See Emphasis and monospace in the Org manual.
Your whole buffer might be monospace in Emacs (depending on your settings) so the gray is a ...
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org-mode batch export: Missing syntax highlighting
You have already mentioned that emacs skips the personal initialization files if it is called with --batch. Therefore, you need to call package-initialize yourself if you want to use package.el.
...
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How does org-mode implement syntax highlighting for code blocks?
It uses cc-mode.
It copes the text to a temporary buffer, highlights it using the major mode that is associated with the language, and copies back the highlighting.
In addition, it makes everything ...
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votes
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Syntax highlight narrowed python string literals as code
This can be done with polymode.
(require 'polymode)
(defcustom pm-host/python
(pm-bchunkmode "python"
:mode 'python-mode
:font-lock-narrow nil)
"Python host ...
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