Re: scheme font-locking: (define ((foo ...) bar) ...)

["Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:

> In Scheme mode, Emacs font locks the form:
>
> (define (in-vicinity-proc dir)
>   (lambda (filename)
>     (in-vicinity dir filename)))
>
> with ‘define’ as a keyword and ‘in-vicinity-proc’ as a function name,
> using font-lock-{keyword,function-name}-face, respectively.  That's fine.
> However, for this form:
>
> (define ((in-vicinity-proc dir) filename)
>   (in-vicinity dir filename))

Out of curiosity -- how standard is this? I've never seen such a
definition before.

> then Emacs font locks only ‘define’.  I have locally modified
> ‘scheme-font-lock-keywords-1’ to change "zero or one parens"
> to "zero or more parens" and that change seems to DTRT.
> Could someone please review the patch below and apply it?

The bug list would have seemed a better place to post the patch.

[patch snipped]

Štěpán