From: Santiago Mejia <mejia@uchicago.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: font-lock on variables
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:27:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljmdsu67.fsf@uchicago.edu> (raw)
I am trying to hack a few extensions in emacs that allow one to look for
words in dictionaries. (in particular, wordnet.el and sdcv.el (to be
found, respectively, at: http://williamxu.net9.org/ref/wordnet.el and
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/sdcv.el)
When one looks for a word in, say, wordnet.el, it creates a new buffer,
*WORDNET* which has several of its key terms fontified. However, I
would like to be able to fontify, also, the actual word that I am
searching. This word is a variable, and changes every time one makes a
new search. After going through the manual, and looking around in
google and the mailing lists, I have not been able to figure out how to
achieve such thing.
My idea so far is to define a global variable, my-foo-var, and add it to
the keywords. I have played with all sorts of small variations of how
to add the variable to the font-lock-keywords, but none has worked.
Here is the most simple example (which as I said, did not work).
(defvar my-foo-var "woman"
"Current word that is seeked.")
(defvar xxx-mode-font-lock-keywords ;keyword for buffer display
'(
;; word used
(my-foo-var . (1 font-lock-type-face))))
I have also tried to use the function font-lock-add-keywords with no
success. (this method, however, strikes me as undesirable, for I would
have to find a way to remove each word that is added, and this might
pose problems if one removes a word that one has looked for, but that is
also a keyword to be fontified (for example, if one looks for the word
"Antonyms", which is a keyword that is also fontified).
Finally, every time I make a change to the xxx-mode-font-lock-keywords,
I have to close emacs and restart it to make sure that the new changes
work. Is there a less brutal way to test the results of one's changes
to this variable? A way to test one's results without having to exit emacs?
Any help is appreciated.
Santiago.
next reply other threads:[~2009-07-24 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-24 20:27 Santiago Mejia [this message]
2009-07-25 0:50 ` font-lock on variables Lennart Borgman
2009-07-25 14:14 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-25 22:12 ` Santiago Mejia
2009-07-25 22:41 ` Santiago Mejia
2009-07-26 14:51 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-25 22:34 ` Santiago Mejia
[not found] <mailman.3105.1248467286.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-25 17:47 ` A.Politz
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