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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Santiago Mejia <mejia@uchicago.edu>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: font-lock on variables
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:50:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50907241750i71229cd7r64dc4905dcf3b2fc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ljmdsu67.fsf@uchicago.edu>

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Santiago Mejia<mejia@uchicago.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.


Look at how hi-lock.el does it.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-25  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-24 20:27 font-lock on variables Santiago Mejia
2009-07-25  0:50 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
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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