From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaj Schumacher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problem understanding font-lock-defaults structure Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:13:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <13173afe-f51c-4c67-b738-1949f2b28b5f@f40g2000pri.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223550857 31108 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2008 11:14:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 11:14:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Xah Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 09 13:15:14 2008 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 1KntU7-0007nH-Ed for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:15:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42470 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KntT3-0004c9-1o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:14:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KntSi-0004Zo-Ll for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:13:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KntSh-0004ZZ-8f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:13:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52353 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KntSh-0004ZW-48 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:13:43 -0400 Original-Received: from dd18200.kasserver.com ([85.13.138.168]:40431) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KntSg-0003So-Un for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:13:43 -0400 Original-Received: from thursday (BAHa009.bah.pppool.de [77.135.160.9]) by dd18200.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 349CE1801D404; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 13:13:44 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <13173afe-f51c-4c67-b738-1949f2b28b5f@f40g2000pri.googlegroups.com> (Xah's message of "Wed\, 8 Oct 2008 17\:02\:14 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:58609 Archived-At: Xah wrote: > (setq myKeywordsLevel1 > (quote > ("Sin\\|Cos" . font-lock-function-name-face) > ("=CF=80\\|=E2=88=9E" . font-lock-constant-face) > ("x\\|y" . font-lock-variable-name-face) > ) > ) It needs to be: (setq myKeywordsLevel1 (list ("Sin\\|Cos" . font-lock-function-name-face) ("=CF=80\\|=E2=88=9E" . font-lock-constant-face) ("x\\|y" . font-lock-variable-name-face))) or (setq myKeywordsLevel1 (quote (("Sin\\|Cos" . font-lock-function-name-face) ("=CF=80\\|=E2=88=9E" . font-lock-constant-face) ("x\\|y" . font-lock-variable-name-face)))) > (setq font-lock-keywords > `( > ,myKeywordsLevel1 > nil > nil > ) > ) There's no need to use `, here. `font-lock-keywords' accepts symbols. (setq font-lock-keywords '((myKeywordsLevel1 nil nil))) or (setq font-lock-keywords '(myKeywordsLevel1) will work. regards, Nikolaj Schumacher