From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Macro used for dynamic setting of font-lock-keywords
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:29:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f3qo5r$d64$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sl9jxsaa.fsf@moley.org>
Sebastian Tennant wrote:
> Quoth Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>:
>> symbol word is getting added to the list. Try this
>>
>> (defun my-add-keyword (word)
>> (font-lock-add-keywords nil (cons word font-lock-warning-face)) t))
>
>
> Your function (above) needs an extra cons but now it works:
>
> (defun my-add-keyword (word)
> (font-lock-add-keywords nil (cons (cons word font-lock-warning-face) '(t))))
You might find this more readable:
(defun my-add-keyword (word)
(font-lock-add-keywords nil `((,word . ,font-lock-warning-face) t)))
> Thanks for pointing out the obvious, although I enjoyed cobbling
> together my macro kludge. I can't believe it didn't occur to me to
> use cons. I suppose it's because I'm thinking macros generally at the
> moment, and hell... why use a simple cons or two, when you can write a
> complicated macro!
Or a simple backquote :-)
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-02 3:29 UTC|newest]
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2007-05-26 8:20 ` Macro used for dynamic setting of font-lock-keywords Tim X
2007-05-26 10:40 ` Sebastian Tennant
[not found] ` <mailman.1274.1180175941.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-26 15:23 ` Tim X
2007-05-26 20:07 ` Sebastian Tennant
2007-06-02 3:29 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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2007-05-27 3:30 ` Tim X
2007-05-27 21:45 ` Xavier Maillard
2007-05-28 9:22 ` Sebastian Tennant
2007-06-02 3:41 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-06-02 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-03 9:39 ` Sebastian Tennant
[not found] ` <mailman.1339.1180303291.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-28 8:37 ` Tim X
2007-06-10 0:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-05-25 17:24 Sebastian Tennant
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