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?
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?
Here are some links. I found them on the Google. It seems there is no one fully-complete and "official" solution to this problem, but a number of possibly quite usable substitutes avaliable.
You could use dedicated modes like django-mode or MuMaMo.
If you want something very basic, and assuming you're editing in html-mode
, you could try the following:
(defun django-highlight-comments ()
(interactive "p")
(highlight-regexp "{%.*?%}" 'hi-orange))
(add-hook 'html-mode-hook 'django-highlight-comments)
(Just add the above lines to your .emacs
or init.el
, and eval it or restart emacs).
Here's what I do. It's a little more general than the code above, and it uses the built-in font-lock mechanisms.
(defvar django-tag-face (make-face 'django-tag-face))
(defvar django-variable-face (make-face 'django-variable-face))
(set-face-background 'django-tag-face "Aquamarine")
(set-face-foreground 'django-tag-face "Black")
(set-face-background 'django-variable-face "Plum")
(set-face-foreground 'django-variable-face "Black")
(font-lock-add-keywords
'html-mode
'(("\\({%[^%]*%}\\)" 1 django-tag-face prepend)
("\\({{[^}]*}}\\)" 1 django-variable-face prepend)))