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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