From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `font-lock-add-keywords' adds wrong face.
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:34:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4p6ghz5.fsf@fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 69bbb835-a58e-411b-acd9-d4ce67af23b2@i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com
Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to highlight global variables (surrounded by "*") in `emacs-
> lisp-mode'. Highlighting works, but with a wrong face. Here is my code
> (evaluated in a fresh "emacs -Q"):
>
> (font-lock-add-keywords 'emacs-lisp-mode
> '("\\_<\\*\\(?:\\w\\|\\s_\\)+\\*\\_>" . 'font-lock-warning-face)
> t)
>
> However, global variables are highlighted with `font-lock-keyword-
> face' (comments are highlighted correctly).
>
> What am I missing? Thanks.
You missed reading the documentation of `font-lock-add-keywords', which
lead me to the following version.
(font-lock-add-keywords 'emacs-lisp-mode
'(("\\_<\\*\\(?:\\w\\|\\s_\\)+\\*\\_>" . 'font-lock-warning-face)))
-ap
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2010-07-08 12:51 ` `font-lock-add-keywords' adds wrong face Elena
2010-07-08 14:34 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
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