From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Macro used for dynamic setting of font-lock-keywords Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:29:01 -0600 Message-ID: References: <874pm0573o.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <87lkfb4nj4.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <87sl9jxsaa.fsf@moley.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180755001 13618 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2007 03:30:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 03:30:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 02 05:30:00 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HuKJT-00042J-OP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:29:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuKJT-0007Xg-9P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:29:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuKJF-0007TF-EG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:29:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuKJD-0007QS-Ss for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:29:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuKJD-0007Q7-JE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:29:43 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HuKJD-0003PJ-77 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:29:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HuKIs-0000WQ-6C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:29:22 +0200 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:29:22 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:29:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Macintosh/20070509) In-Reply-To: <87sl9jxsaa.fsf@moley.org> X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:44593 Archived-At: Sebastian Tennant wrote: > Quoth Tim X : >> 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