I’d like to request
some useful additions to rosemacs.el:
;; Add ROS *.launch, *.urdf,
and *.xacro files to xml mode
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
'("\\.launch\\'" . xml-mode))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
'("\\.urdf\\'" . xml-mode))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
'("\\.xacro\\'" . xml-mode))
;; Add ROS message files to
gdb-script mode for syntax highlighting
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
'("\\.msg\\'" . gdb-script-mode))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
'("\\.srv\\'" . gdb-script-mode))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
'("\\.action\\'" . gdb-script-mode))
These enable useful syntax
highlighting in ros specific files. I found that gdb-script-mode colors
message files very nicely. (Comments are red, field types are purple, field
names are black.) Ideally, I guess there should be a ros-message-mode
with its own font-lock rules. But this seems to be sufficient for
now. To make gdb-script-mode even more ros-centric, you can add ros’s
standard message types to a different font-lock font face. This will make
standard field types like “bool” and “int8” pink
instead of purple:
;; Add ROS standard message
types to gdb-script-mode for different highlighting
(font-lock-add-keywords
'gdb-script-mode
'(("\\<\\(bool\\|int8\\|uint8\\|int16\\|uint16\\|int32\\|uint32\\|int64\\|uint64\\|float32\\|float64\\|string\\|time\\|duration\\)\\>"
. font-lock-builtin-face)))
Enjoy,
-Ben
Ben Axelrod
Research Scientist
iRobot Corporation
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