Re: pretty highlighting and indenting own elisp macros

[Kevin Rodgers]

Klaus Berndl wrote:

> If i add a call to `with-temp-file' in my elisp-program it will be highlighted
> with font-lock-keyword-face and indented like follows:
>
> (with-temp-file "my-filename"
>   (foo ...)
>   (bar ...))
>
> Fine. But suppose i have written my own macro `with-XYZ':
>
> (defmacro with-XYZ (arg &rest body)
>  ....)
>
> If i add this macro to my elisp-program then it is not highlighted as keyword
> and it is poorly indented:
>
> (with-XYZ "my-first-arg"
>           (first-form-of-body ..)
>           ...)
>
> What must i do so my own macros are highlighted and indented as build-in macros
> like `with-temp-file'? The former one seems to be not so hard but for the
> second one i have no glue.

;;; Local Variables:
;;; eval: (put 'with-XYZ 'lisp-indent-hook 1)
;;; End:

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