Re: custom function to highlight keywords

[Kevin Rodgers]

trex_eater wrote:

> foomaster1200 <foomaster1200@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
> news:<87znnq4cih.fsf@killr.ath.cx>...
>
> > ckugmk@yahoo.com (trex_eater) writes:
> >
> >
> > > (defun high-on2 ( expname)
> > >         (interactive "Bexpname: ")
> > >         (setq my-temp (concat "\\(" expname "\\)" ))
> > >        ;; Not sure about the line below...
> > > 	(setq my-keywords (my-temp (0 my-new-face)))  
> > > 	(setq font-lock-keywords (append font-lock-keywords my-keywords))
> > I might be wrong... but:
> >
> >
> > > 	(setq my-keywords (my-temp (0 my-new-face)))  
> > is probably not what you want. You're calling a function "my-temp"
> > and calling a function "0" within that. You probably get a wrong
> > function error?
>
> Agreed. But what is the lisp syntax to specify that use the contents
> of the variable my-temp while constructing the my-keywords in the
> following line:
>
> setq my-keywords (my-temp (0 my-new-face)))

(setq my-keywords (list my-temp '(0 my-new-face)))

or

(setq my-keywords `(,my-temp (0 my-new-face)))

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