Re: custom function to highlight keywords

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>]

trex_eater wrote:

> foomaster1200 <foomaster1200@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<87znnq4cih.fsf@killr.ath.cx>...
> 
>>ckugmk@yahoo.com (trex_eater) writes:
>>
>>
>>>(defun high-on2 ( expname)
>>>	(interactive "Bexpname: ")
>>>	(setq my-temp (concat "\\(" expname "\\)" ))
>>>        ;; Not sure about the line below...
>>>	(setq my-keywords (my-temp (0 my-new-face)))  
>>>	(setq font-lock-keywords (append font-lock-keywords my-keywords))
>>>
>>I might be wrong... but:
>>
>>
>>>	(setq my-keywords (my-temp (0 my-new-face)))  
>>>
>>is probably not what you want. You're calling a function "my-temp"
>>and calling a function "0" within that. You probably get a wrong
>>function error?
>>
> 
> Agreed. But what is the lisp syntax to specify that use the contents
> of the variable my-temp while constructing the my-keywords in the
> following line:
> 
> setq my-keywords (my-temp (0 my-new-face)))

(setq my-keywords (list my-temp '(0 my-new-face)))

or

(setq my-keywords `(,my-temp (0 my-new-face)))

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