Re: Basic font-lock without font-locking double-quoted strings

[Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>]

Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com> writes:

>>> (define-derived-mode msdbg-mode fundamental-mode
>>> (setq > font-lock-keywords '(("EA" >
>>> . font-lock-warning-face))))
>>  Does that work at all?
>
> Yes.

Really?

If you check out the help for `define-derived-mode', it
says:

(define-derived-mode CHILD PARENT NAME &optional
DOCSTRING &rest BODY)

and

NAME - a string which will appear in the status line
(e.g. "Hypertext")

So when you invoke the mode (with `M-x CHILD', as CHILD
is "the name of the command for the derived mode"),
won't it produce an error because in general it doesn't
make sense, and in particular, '(("EA"
. font-lock-warning-face)) is not a string?

At least this is what happens to me on GNU Emacs 24.3.

Compare:

(define-derived-mode msdbg-mode fundamental-mode
  (setq font-lock-keywords '(("EA" . font-lock-warning-face))))
(msdbg-mode)
(message mode-name) ;; (wrong-type-argument stringp ...

(define-derived-mode msdbg-mode fundamental-mode
  "MS Debug")
(msdbg-mode)
(message mode-name) ;; "MS Debug"

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