From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Tennant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Macro used for dynamic setting of font-lock-keywords Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 23:07:41 +0300 Message-ID: <87sl9jxsaa.fsf@moley.org> References: <874pm0573o.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <87lkfb4nj4.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180209972 14222 80.91.229.12 (26 May 2007 20:06:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 20:06:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 26 22:06:11 2007 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 1Hs2Wd-000171-6Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 22:06:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hs2Wc-00036r-PG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 16:06:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hs2WQ-00036K-4O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 16:05:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hs2WP-000368-KD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 16:05:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hs2WP-000365-I0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 16:05:53 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hs2WP-0000kr-0e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 16:05:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hs2WN-000544-HG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 22:05:51 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.105.17.65 ([85.105.17.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 May 2007 22:05:51 +0200 Original-Received: from sebyte by 85.105.17.65 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 May 2007 22:05:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.105.17.65 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fnzOXG4nZEDzY1fO383ni0A1yrY= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:44468 Archived-At: Quoth Tim X : > symbol word is getting added to the list. Try this > > (defun my-add-keyword (word) > (font-lock-add-keywords nil (cons word font-lock-warning-face)) t)) Your function (above) needs an extra cons but now it works: (defun my-add-keyword (word) (font-lock-add-keywords nil (cons (cons word font-lock-warning-face) '(t)))) Thanks for pointing out the obvious, although I enjoyed cobbling together my macro kludge. I can't believe it didn't occur to me to use cons. I suppose it's because I'm thinking macros generally at the moment, and hell... why use a simple cons or two, when you can write a complicated macro! Sebastian