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From: source liu <sourceonly@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A problem in using font-lock-add-keywords
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 15:34:49 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAzVxgN++ZGgOUxcbJD8strQWYPh-zvYsvkk9H7=-ejyWTNK_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2veigrz.fsf@yandex.ru>

done!
the quote teach me a lesson.  Thank you, Dmitry

by the way, if i use this way, are there any restriction to the list,
i mean, length, or size of the 'mylist' as metioned below.


> The problem is likely with quoting. You need to expand the `regexp-opt'
> call:
>
> (font-lock-add-keywords nil
>  `((,(regexp-opt mylist t) 1 font-lock-warning-face prepend)
>    ("\\<\\(and\\|or\\|not\\)\\>" . font-lock-keyword-face))
>
> By the way, as long as you want to highlight the whole match, you can
> use the group number 0 and no grouping.



-- 
Liu An
Institution of modern physics, Shanghai, China



  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-05  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-05  2:54 A problem in using font-lock-add-keywords source liu
2013-03-05  4:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-03-05  7:34   ` source liu [this message]
2013-03-05  8:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
     [not found]   ` <CAAzVxgMu3EnA1_FMG9oLshCxhPV03=qkVNoWKhygUJKa8C6DwA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-03-05 10:14     ` Dmitry Gutov

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