Re: font-lock on variables

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

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.