13:06 <Shinmera> Is there a way to apply extra syntax highlighting for select parts within a lisp source file?

13:06 <Shinmera> I'm using a lot of strings that contain code in another language for which having syntax highlighting would be tremendously useful.

13:17 <antoszka> I was researching that at a certain time in Emacs and didn't find a proper solution (or none at all, can't remember the details).

13:21 <Shinmera> :( Oh well.

13:21 <Shinmera> Emacs syntax highlighting system is... uh. Well, let's say it leaves things to be desired, in general :)

13:23 <etimmons> Org mode manages to do it somehow

13:24 <scymtym> there used to be a "multiple major modes" or similar package. it seems https://github.com/polymode/polymode is the current iteration

13:25 <Shinmera> Hm!

13:37 <antoszka> That does look reasonable.

13:37 <antoszka> My research was older than this package ;)

13:50 <pjb> Shinmera: perhaps one of the multiple modes. mumamo-mode or mmm-mode?

13:51 <pjb> Shinmera: or, I have a "page-mode" really just a set of keybinding to narrow to a page (separated by ^L) (or forward or backward pages), and that resets the mode. So you could write an emacs command to narrow to a string, and have a mode comment in them to reset the mode.

13:51 <pjb> Shinmera: this would be useful to dequote and requote the string too.

13:52 <pjb> Shinmera: see: https://github.com/informatimago/emacs/blob/master/pjb-page.el

13:52 <pjb> Shinmera: write narrow-to-string and widden-from-string commands.

13:53 <Shinmera> Mh. I'm really only looking for syntax highlighting, and it would have to happen for both modes simultaneously. I'm not the end-user for this, so any more complex emax navigation is out.

13:53 <Shinmera> *emacs

13:55 <pjb> Shinmera: have a look at implode-j-string and explode-j-string in https://termbin.com/jomi

13:56 <pjb> Shinmera: well, multi-modes are complex. It's simplier to use narrow-to-region and accept you see only one thing at a time.

13:56 <pjb> Shinmera: notably, I don't know how mmm or mumamo will manage using only the double quote as mode separator. Usually, there's a xml tag or something.

13:57 <pjb> Shinmera: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MultipleModes

13:57 <pjb> polymode and multi-mode too.

13:58 <pjb> polymode looks to be the most promising.

13:59 <Shinmera> Yeah, I'll have a look at all of this some other time. Got more urgent tasks ahead of me right now. Thanks, though! :)

13:59 <pjb> But of course, there are commands: https://polymode.github.io/usage/