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Re: `font-lock-add-keywords' adds wrong face.
From: |
Andreas Politz |
Subject: |
Re: `font-lock-add-keywords' adds wrong face. |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:18:00 -0000 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to highlight global variables (surrounded by "*") in `emacs-
> lisp-mode'. Highlighting works, but with a wrong face. Here is my code
> (evaluated in a fresh "emacs -Q"):
>
> (font-lock-add-keywords 'emacs-lisp-mode
> '("\\_<\\*\\(?:\\w\\|\\s_\\)+\\*\\_>" . 'font-lock-warning-face)
> t)
>
> However, global variables are highlighted with `font-lock-keyword-
> face' (comments are highlighted correctly).
>
> What am I missing? Thanks.
You missed reading the documentation of `font-lock-add-keywords', which
lead me to the following version.
(font-lock-add-keywords 'emacs-lisp-mode
'(("\\_<\\*\\(?:\\w\\|\\s_\\)+\\*\\_>" . 'font-lock-warning-face)))
-ap