Re: Derived Mode 101 HOWTO

[Johan Bockgård]

Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com> writes:

> (defvar newlisp-font-lock-keywords
>    `(,@scheme-font-lock-keywords
>      (,(concat "\\<\\(" newlisp-keywords "\\)\\>")
>       . font-lock-newlisp-keywords-face))
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[C-h v font-lock-keywords]

Emacs:

    "FACENAME is an expression whose value is the face name to use."
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

XEmacs:

    "FACE-FORM :== The symbol naming a defined face. | Expression whos
    value is the face name to use. If you want FACE-FORM to be a
    symbol that evaluates to a face, use a form like "(progn sym)"."


> (define-derived-mode newlisp-mode scheme-mode "newlisp"
>   "A major mode for Newlisp."
>   (set (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults)
>        (cons newlisp-font-lock-keywords
>              ;; Copy the rest of font-lock-defaults from
>              ;; scheme-mode if available.
>              (or (cdr font-lock-defaults)
>                  '(nil t (("+-*/.<>=!?$%_&~^:" . "w")))))))
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[C-h v font-lock-defaults]

Emacs:

  "If SYNTAX-ALIST is non-nil, it should be a list of cons pairs of the form
  (CHAR-OR-STRING . STRING) used to set the local Font Lock syntax table"
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

XEmacs:

  "If SYNTAX-ALIST is non-nil, it should be a list of cons pairs of the form
  (CHAR . STRING) used to set the local Font Lock syntax table"
   ^^^^

-- 
Johan Bockgård