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From: Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
Subject: Re: Syntax highlight (problem with 'concat)
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:59:06 -0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060103035906.GB1812@johnsons-web.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871wzq2cye.fsf@gmail.com>

* Ian Zimmerman <nobrowser@gmail.com> [060102 18:51]:
> Tim> '("\\b\\(print\\|setq\\)\\b" .  font-lock-user-keyword-face)   ;; good, line below is bad
> Tim> ;'((concat tj-word-begin tj-lisp-user-keywords tj-word-end) . font-lock-user-keyword-face)
> 
> The quote around the last item in the list applies to _everything_ inside.
> So your concat call never actually happens.  What you want is something like
 
  I suspected that ....
> ...
> 
> (cons (concat tj-word-begin tj-lisp-user-keywords tj-word-end) 'font-lock-user-keyword-face)

 Aha!
> ...
> 
> 
> or use quasi-quotes (see Elisp manual)

   Okay, will bone up on that too...

   Thank you Ian!
-- 
Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
      http://www.alaska-internet-solutions.com

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-03  3:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-03  3:34 Syntax highlight (problem with 'concat) Tim Johnson
2006-01-03  3:43 ` Ian Zimmerman
2006-01-03  3:59   ` Tim Johnson [this message]
2006-01-03 18:09     ` Kevin Rodgers

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