conf-mode almost ready

[Daniel Pfeiffer]

Hi,

Please find at the link below a mode that handles thousands of config files
fairly well.  These are Windows .ini, .lst and .reg (all of which can also be
found on Unix), Java properties and a whole bunch of /etc/*, .cf, .cfg, .conf
etc. files on Unix.

On my PC (including a nearly unused Windows partition) I have found almost
2000 of these, with varying syntaxes for comments (;, #, //, /* */ or !),
assignment (var = value, var : value, var value or keyword var value) and
sections ([section] or section { }).  All of this is handled by this mode.

I'd like to make this part of Emacs, so any feedback is welcome!  To start it
up, use:

(autoload 'conf-mode "conf-mode" () t)
(autoload 'conf-unix-mode "conf-mode" () t)
(autoload 'conf-windows-mode "conf-mode" () t)
(autoload 'conf-javaprop-mode "conf-mode" () t)
(autoload 'conf-space-mode "conf-mode" () t)
(autoload 'conf-xdefaults-mode "conf-mode" () t)

(setq auto-mode-alist
      `(,@auto-mode-alist
        ("\\.docbook\\'" . sgml-mode)
        ("/config\\.\\(?:bat\\|log\\)\\'" . fundamental-mode)

        ;; Windows candidates may be opened case sensitively on Unix
        
("\\.\\(?:[iI][nN][iI]\\|[lL][sS][tT]\\|[rR][eE][gG]\\|[sS][yY][sS]\\)\\'" .
conf-mode)
        ("java.+\\.conf\\'" . conf-javaprop-mode)
        ("\\.properties\\(?:\\.[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+\\)?\\'" . conf-javaprop-mode)
        ;; *.cf, *.cfg, *.conf, *.config[.local|.de_DE.UTF8|...], */config
        ("[/.]c\\(?:on\\)?f\\(?:i?g\\)?\\(?:\\.[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+\\)?\\'" . 
conf-mode)
        ("\\.desktop\\'" . conf-unix-mode)

("\\`/etc/\\(?:aliases\\|DIR_COLORS\\|ethers\\|.?fstab\\|gnokiirc\\|.*hosts\\
|ksysguarddrc\\|lesskey\\|login\\.defs\\|mtab\\|opera6rc\\|permissions\\|prot
|ocols\\|rpc\\|services\\)\\'" . conf-mode)
        ;; either user's dot-files or under /etc or some such
        ("/\\.?\\(?:kde.*rc\\|mime\\.types\\|wgetrc\\)\\'" . conf-mode)
        ;; alas not all ~/.*rc files are like this

("/\\.\\(?:enigma\\|gltron\\|hxplayer\\|net\\|neverball\\|qt/.+\\|realplayer\
\|scummvm\\|sversion\\|sylpheed/.+\\|xmp\\)rc\\'" . conf-mode)

("/\\.\\(?:gdbtkinit\\|grip\\|orbital/.+txt\\|rhosts\\|tuxracer/options\\)\\'"
. conf-mode)
        ("/\\.?X\\(?:default\\|resource\\|re\\)s\\>" . conf-xdefaults-mode)
        ("/X11.+app-defaults/" . conf-xdefaults-mode)
        ("/X11.+locale/.+/Compose\\'" . conf-colon-mode)
        ;; this contains everything twice, with space and with colon :-(
        ("/X11.+locale/compose\\.dir\\'" . conf-javaprop-mode)))
(setq magic-mode-alist
      `(("# xmcd" . conf-unix-mode)
        ,@magic-mode-alist))

Get it here:

http://dapfy.bei.t-online.de/conf-mode.el

coralament / best Grötens / liebe Grüße / best regards / elkorajn salutojn
Daniel Pfeiffer

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