From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>
Subject: Re: custom function to highlight keywords
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:26:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E7B3D53.1050300@ihs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 419874ab.0303200701.7ffa49f5@posting.google.com
trex_eater wrote:
> foomaster1200 <foomaster1200@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<87znnq4cih.fsf@killr.ath.cx>...
>
>>ckugmk@yahoo.com (trex_eater) writes:
>>
>>
>>>(defun high-on2 ( expname)
>>> (interactive "Bexpname: ")
>>> (setq my-temp (concat "\\(" expname "\\)" ))
>>> ;; Not sure about the line below...
>>> (setq my-keywords (my-temp (0 my-new-face)))
>>> (setq font-lock-keywords (append font-lock-keywords my-keywords))
>>>
>>I might be wrong... but:
>>
>>
>>> (setq my-keywords (my-temp (0 my-new-face)))
>>>
>>is probably not what you want. You're calling a function "my-temp"
>>and calling a function "0" within that. You probably get a wrong
>>function error?
>>
>
> Agreed. But what is the lisp syntax to specify that use the contents
> of the variable my-temp while constructing the my-keywords in the
> following line:
>
> setq my-keywords (my-temp (0 my-new-face)))
(setq my-keywords (list my-temp '(0 my-new-face)))
or
(setq my-keywords `(,my-temp (0 my-new-face)))
--
<a href="mailto:<kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>">Kevin Rodgers</a>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-21 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-20 5:40 custom function to highlight keywords trex_eater
2003-03-20 9:24 ` foomaster1200
2003-03-20 15:01 ` trex_eater
2003-03-21 16:26 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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