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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

      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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