Re: Adding a font-lock face to a major mode/revisited

[Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>]

* Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com> [060104 17:09]:
There is a typo here: 
  where I said:
> Unfortunately I have not yet found any examples to work from. I suspect 
> that neither the 'put nor the 'cons calls are wrong.

 I meant to say that it appears that 
    neither the 'put nor the 'cons cells are correct.
 Ssoorryy!
 tj

> After studying documentation, I have taken a different approach.
> Code for lisp-mode++.el is not as follows:
> ;;
> (defconst tj-word-end "\\)\\b")
> (defconst tj-lisp-user-keywords 
>           (concat tj-word-begin 
>                   (regexp-opt '("and" "apply" "concatenate" "format" "funcall" "list" "lambda" 
>                                 "mapcar" "not" "print" "push" "return-from " "setf" "setq") 
>                   ) tj-word-end))
> (make-local-variable 'lisp-font-lock-keywords-tj)
> (defvar lisp-font-lock-keywords-tj  
>   (list
>     (list tj-lisp-user-keywords '1 'font-lock-user-keyword-face))
>   "Additional keywords and groups for lisp-mode")
> (add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook
>           '(lambda ()
>              (require 'extra-faces) ;; font-lock-user-keyword-face defined here
>              'turn-on-font-lock
>              ;; I have tried both of the lines below, with no good effect
>              (put 'lisp-mode 'font-lock-defaults '(lisp-font-lock-keywords-tj))
>              ;(cons font-lock-defaults lisp-font-lock-keywords-tj)
>              (message "lisp-mode++ loaded")))
> (provide 'lisp-mode++) ;; .emacs has (require 'lisp-mode++)
> ;;
> What works:  
>   'add hook is being executed. 
>      I see the message 
>      Even with "debug on error" turned on, there are no errors.
>   the 'require form is being evaluated as 
>     'font-lock-user-keyword-face appears as a defined variable.
>   lisp-font-lock-keywords-tj appears as a defined variable.
>     The regex part of the variable seems to work as tested with
>       re-builder
> What doesn't work:
>   No syntax highlighting appears for the keywords.
>   c-h v font-lock-defaults => provides a printed representation
>     that does not show lisp-font-lock-keywords-tj as a component of
>     that variable.
> 
> Unfortunately I have not yet found any examples to work from. I suspect 
> that neither the 'put nor the 'cons calls are wrong.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> tim
> 
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