From: August Karlstrom <fusionfive@comhem.se>
Subject: Re: font-lock and regexp-opt
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:28:57 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JPqVe.33632$d5.189013@newsb.telia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87acikbugv.fsf@madamex.madamex.dk>
Mads Jensen wrote:
> I am trying to write my first major mode, where I'd like to use
> font-lock-mode to colorize some words. I browsed some code, and saw that
> people are using regexp-opt for this, so I went with this approach,
> too. Therefore, I have:
>
> (defconst inducks-keywords
> (regexp-opt '(...) t) "inducks fields to colorize")
(regexp-opt '(...) 'words) is even better.
> And wrote the following:
>
> (defconst inducks-font-heroes
> (list
> (cons
> (concat "\\<\\(" inducks-keywords "\\)\\>")
> 'inducks-keyword)))
>
> Is this a good way to do it ? It doesn't compile.
How does the compilation fail. Which version of Emacs are you using and
on what operating system? Have you `M-x h f regexp-opt' etc.
August
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-13 2:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-10 19:20 font-lock and regexp-opt Mads Jensen
2005-09-11 21:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-09-15 19:02 ` Mads Jensen
2005-09-13 2:28 ` August Karlstrom [this message]
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