font locking .txt files

[A.J. Rossini]

If you want "myfile.txt" to contain R code, then use "myfile.R"
instead, and it should font-lock like the rest.  Otherwise, you'll
have to put it into the right mode (i.e. M-x R-mode   or similar).


8rino-Luca Pantani <ottorino-luca.pantani at unifi.it> writes:

> Hi all,
> this is my first (intentional) post to this list,
> so please forgive me if it's trivial.
>
> I would like to have myfile.txt fontyfied as the initial scratch file.
> I'm quite unexpert in the use of R,
> and having different colurs for after keys like #, and " helps me a lot
> in decoding what I'm writing. Particularly the day after.
> Also very useful is the automatic indentation.
>
> I know by reading "Getting started with xemacs"
> that this could be done activating the font lock mode for each window.
> In fact it works for the scratch window as well as for the R window,
> but it seems not to work for the myfile.txt window.
>
> Now I realize that there is a new #myfile.txt# together with the previous
> myfile.txt
> and it has different colours, actually only black and green after the key ".
> Moreover, the automatic indentation do not works.
>
> Eventually, how can I have all those useful features of *scratch* in my own
> files?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ottorino-Luca Pantani, Università di Firenze
> Dip. Scienza del Suolo e Nutrizione della Pianta
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