Re: set font for TODO

[Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> wrote:
> this could be trivial but I cannot find a solution: I'd like to
> emphasize some warning/todo words with a special font, so in the
> beginning I did:
>
> (custom-set-faces
>  '(font-lock-warning-face ((t (:foreground "Yellow" :weight bold  )))) )
>
> (defun fluca1978/fontify-fixme ()
>   (font-lock-add-keywords
>    nil '(("\\<\\(FIX\\|TODO\\|FIXME\\|HACK\\|REFACTOR\\|XXX\\)[ \t\s\n:]*"
>           1 font-lock-warning-face t))))
>
>
> but of course this has the side effect to fontify also every other
> string that emacs applies warning-face to. So how can I isolate my
> keyword list from the emacs one?

You'll probably need to define your own custom face, maybe having it
inherit from font-lock-warning-face, and then have font-lock apply
your new face rather than the old face to your keywords.

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