In C/C++ mode in Emacs, change face of code in #if 0…#endif block to comment face

Question

I\'m trying to add functionality found in some other code editors to my Emacs configuration, whereby C/C++ code within #if 0...#endif blocks is automatically set to the comm

Answer 1

Even if you got the multiline regexp to work, you'd still have problems with nested #ifdef/#endif's since it would stop font-locking at the first #endif. This code works, although I'm not sure if there will be a noticeable slow down for large files:

(defun my-c-mode-font-lock-if0 (limit)
  (save-restriction
    (widen)
    (save-excursion
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (let ((depth 0) str start start-depth)
        (while (re-search-forward "^\\s-*#\\s-*\\(if\\|else\\|endif\\)" limit 'move)
          (setq str (match-string 1))
          (if (string= str "if")
              (progn
                (setq depth (1+ depth))
                (when (and (null start) (looking-at "\\s-+0"))
                  (setq start (match-end 0)
                        start-depth depth)))
            (when (and start (= depth start-depth))
              (c-put-font-lock-face start (match-beginning 0) 'font-lock-comment-face)
              (setq start nil))
            (when (string= str "endif")
              (setq depth (1- depth)))))
        (when (and start (> depth 0))
          (c-put-font-lock-face start (point) 'font-lock-comment-face)))))
  nil)

(defun my-c-mode-common-hook ()
  (font-lock-add-keywords
   nil
   '((my-c-mode-font-lock-if0 (0 font-lock-comment-face prepend))) 'add-to-end))

(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'my-c-mode-common-hook)

EDIT: Take into account #else

EDIT #2: Niftier code to handle arbitrary nesting of if/else/endif's