Re: font-lock-add-keywords frustrations

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "Jesse" == Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> writes:
> (font-lock-add-keywords 'psgml-mode
>   '(("slam" . test-face)))
                ^^^^^^^^^

font-lock expects this to be an elisp expression that will
return the face to use, but since `test-face' is not a bound
variable, it fails.  Try

 (font-lock-add-keywords 'psgml-mode
   '(("slam" (0 'test-face))))

or

 (defvar test-face 'test-face)
 (font-lock-add-keywords 'psgml-mode
   '(("slam" (0 test-face))))

I'd also recommend

  (add-hook 'psgml-mode-hook
     (lambda ()
       (font-lock-add-keywords nil '(("slam" (0 'test-face))))))

because the implementation of `font-lock-add-keywords' in the case
where the mode is not nil is pretty ugly ;-)


        Stefan