Re: colorization of mode contents

[Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> writes:
>
>> In LaTeX/PS mode, the \cite{key} command displays key
>> values in green in the raw .tex file. This makes it
>> easy to spot the command in a block of text.
>
> Try:
>
> (font-lock-add-keywords
>  'latex-mode
>  '(("citeNP\{\\(.*\\)\}" (1 'font-lock-comment-face))))

Unfortunately, nothing happened. 

> If nothing happens, after eval, 

Being a LISP ignoramus, I tried C-x C-e after each of the parentheses or
brackets. Starting at end (after "...))))" I got "nil", then simply an
echo of the string, then / is invalid function, then } is void variable.
Sorry. 

> try (latex-mode) 

I don't understand what you want. I tied replacing 'latex-mode with
'(latex-mode) to no avail. 

> or `M-x latex-mode'. 

Given my setup, this runs spell check, and the key values in
\citeNP{key} naturlly turn red as the result. When the cursor hits
them,the red turns off, but I return to black foreground color for the
{key} value, not the forest green I wanted.

Toggling M-x font-lock-mode didn't help any more than toggling M-x
latex-mode. 

I tried:

  (add-hook 'latex-mode
     (lambda ()
      (font-lock-add-keywords nil
        '(("citeNP\{\\(.*\\)\}" (1 'font-lock-constant-face))))))

and didn't do any better with it. I changed to constant-face because
my comment-face with command package is black foreground.

Haines