From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Adding a font-lock face to a major mode Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:01:35 -0500 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87bqyqpf1o.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: <87y81upnfg.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136496032 6044 80.91.229.2 (5 Jan 2006 21:20:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 21:20:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 05 22:20:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EucWc-0001av-6c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:19:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EucYM-0006nF-CY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:21:46 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GorFB00cXzVhxMhGOqTJj0p1MJc= Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.71.26.159 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1136494895 67.71.26.159 (Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:01:35 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:01:35 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:136845 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:32465 Archived-At: >> I would like to be able to add a font-lock face to a major mode at load >> time. > Try font-lock-add-keywords. Don't listen to what he says: font-lock-add-keywords is not for use by derived modes, so it's OK to use it if you put it in lisp-mode-hook, but if you end up creating your own major mode by deriving from lisp-mode, you should create your own font-lock-defaults value and your own font-lock-keywords value (built from lisp-font-lock-keywords, of course). Stefan "the other one"