2.10 Tag Decoration Mode

Semantic Tag Decoration mode “decorates” each tag based on certain arbitrary features of that tag. Decorations are specified using the variable semantic-decoration-styles.

Command: global-semantic-decoration-mode &optional arg

Toggle Semantic Tag Decoration mode in all Semantic-enabled buffers. With an optional argument arg, enable if arg is positive, and disable otherwise.

Variable: semantic-decoration-styles

The value of this variable is a list of decoration styles for Semantic Tag Decoration mode. Each element in this list should have the form (name . flag), where name is a style name (a symbol) and flag is non-nil if the style is enabled.

The following styles are available:

semantic-tag-boundary

Place an overline in front of each long tag (excluding prototypes).

semantic-decoration-on-private-members

Highlight class members that are designated as private.

semantic-decoration-on-protected-members

Highlight class members that are designated as protected.

semantic-decoration-on-includes

Highlight class members that are includes. Clicking on the highlighted include statements opens a context menu for configuring Semantic includes.

To enable or disable specific decorations, use this function:

Command: semantic-toggle-decoration-style name &optional arg

Prompt for a decoration style, name, and turn it on or off. With prefix argument arg, turn on if positive, otherwise off. Return non-nil if the decoration style is enabled.

Face: semantic-tag-boundary-face

Face for long tags in the semantic-tag-boundary decoration style.

Face: semantic-decoration-on-private-members-face

Face for privately-scoped tags in the semantic-decoration-on-private-members decoration style.

Face: semantic-decoration-on-protected-members-face

Face for protected tags in the semantic-decoration-on-protected-members decoration style.

Face: semantic-decoration-on-includes

Face for includes that are not in some other state, in the semantic-decoration-on-includes decoration style.

Face: semantic-decoration-on-unknown-includes

Face for includes that cannot be found, in the semantic-decoration-on-includes decoration style.

Face: semantic-decoration-on-unparsed-includes

Face for includes that have not yet been parsed, in the semantic-decoration-on-includes decoration style.

2.10.1 Creating New Decoration Modes

You can create new types of decorations using the following function:

Function: define-semantic-decoration-style name doc &rest flags

Define a new decoration style with name. doc is a documentation string describing the decoration style name. It is appended to auto-generated doc strings. An optional list of flags can also be specified. Flags are: :enabled <value> - specify the default enabled value for name.

This defines two new overload functions respectively called NAME-p and NAME-highlight, for which you must provide a default implementation in respectively the functions NAME-p-default and NAME-highlight-default. Those functions are passed a tag. NAME-p must return non-nil to indicate that the tag should be decorated by NAME-highlight.

To put primary decorations on a tag NAME-highlight, use functions like semantic-set-tag-face, semantic-set-tag-intangible, etc., found in the semantic-decorate library.

To add other kind of decorations on a tag, NAME-highlight must use semantic-decorate-tag, and other functions of the semantic decoration api found in this library.