named.conf lint (format debugging)

[Barry Margolin]

In article <bkvd63$d1$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Forrest Aldrich  <forrie at forrie.com> wrote:
>Exactly.
>
>I did figure it out, after much toiling.
>
>Maybe there's an IDE out there (free) that some formatting rules for 
>named.conf can be placed into.  Would be very handy, especially where you 
>have a really large site and a simple mistake or misplacement of key words 
>can bring your server(s) down.

Emacs already has modes for a number of languages that use
brace-and-semicolon syntax similar to named.conf (e.g. C, Perl, and Java).
You might be able to just use on of them, or it shouldn't be too difficult
to use one of them as the basis for named.conf-mode.

All you really need is something that indents properly according to the
brace nesting depth and highlights the matching braces.

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