[Asterisk-Users] emacs syntax/keyowrd highlighting: asterisk-mode

[JP Carballo]

Good work Dave!
I suggest you post this in www.voip-info.org for future emacs/asterisk 
users.

Dave Grey wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I've just begun learning *, and as my dialplans and macros have gotten 
> more complex I started wishing for a way to more easily follow the 
> flow of various Goto, GotoIf, Dial, and etc. commands, especially when 
> trying to use priority "n" and labels rather than numbered priorities.
>
> Toward this end, I hacked together an emacs general/minor mode for 
> basic font-locking (syntax shading) support. Feel free to grab it here:
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/lydanynom/asterisk-mode.el.zip
>
> Feel even freer to suggest or make changes, or point me to your own 
> major or minor asterisk-mode. A quick search before I started did not 
> find any such thing, but in retrospect I probably should have just 
> asked here rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. Lisp regexps give 
> me a headache, and this was my first and likely only foray into 
> writing emacs modes, so don't expect too much.
>
> For now, though, it seems to do what I want it to, which is, as I 
> commented in the file:
>
> ;; Assumes applications and functions will be in the same case they 
> appear
> ;; in the documentation:
> ;; Dial, BackGround, DISA, CALLERID, Playback, etc.
> ;; Assumes comma (rather than pipe) will be used as the argument 
> delimiter,
> ;; and that arguments to applicatins will always be enclosed in ():
> ;; Goto(context,123,1)
> ;;
> ;; The principle goal of this mode is to make it easier to follow the 
> flow
> ;; of a complicated dialplan with many Goto and other context-jumping 
> apps
> ;; geing called. Extensions, priorities, and labels are handled in a
> ;; way that attempts to higlight the (potentially) operative bits while
> ;; subdueing the bits that can't be directly addressed. Secondarily, the
> ;; applications, functions, variables, and config keywords are 
> highlighted as well,
> ;; each in their own face.
>
> It is intended primarily for use with extensions.conf, but it is 
> effective in all of the configuration files.
>
> Of course, it seems that this is rapidly become moot with the advent 
> of ael, but I haven't ventured there yet, myself.
>
> Anyway, use and enjoy, comment, or criticize as you feel is warranted.
>
> Big kudos to this list and the * community as a whole. I have learned 
> a ton in the last two weeks, thanks to all of you.
>
> lyd


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