From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Tennant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Macro used for dynamic setting of font-lock-keywords Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 20:24:45 +0300 Message-ID: <874pm0x1cy.fsf@moley.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180113813 24508 80.91.229.12 (25 May 2007 17:23:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 17:23:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 25 19:23:32 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HrdVi-00042v-Dq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 19:23:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrdVh-0001UW-VO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 13:23:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrdVW-0001UR-8y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 13:23:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrdVT-0001UF-Gz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 13:23:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrdVT-0001UC-Dp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 13:23:15 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HrdVT-0002IK-4f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 13:23:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HrdVL-0004a0-4B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 19:23:07 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.105.17.65 ([85.105.17.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 19:23:07 +0200 Original-Received: from sebyte by 85.105.17.65 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 19:23:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.105.17.65 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hL9wK4mVHAIPmHDqfikaHPMTOLo= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:44436 Archived-At: Hi all, This works: (defun foo (word) (display-buffer (set-buffer (get-buffer-create "*bar*"))) (insert (format "baz\n")) (unless (fboundp 'foo-dynamic-add-keyword) ;only define it once (defmacro foo-dynamic-add-keyword () `(font-lock-add-keywords nil '((,word . font-lock-warning-face)) 'set))) (foo-dynamic-add-keyword) ;call the macro (font-lock-mode 1)) (foo "baz") in that the string argument to foo is added to the buffer's font-lock-keywords and the string is highlighted wherever it occurs, but it seems like something of a kludge to me. Just out of interest really, is there a better way of passing the value of a variable as an argument to the function font-lock-add-keywords? Sebastian