Re: set face for added font lock keywords

[Teemu Likonen]

* 2011-01-09 07:27 (-0800), extronom@googlemail.com wrote:

> I'm trying to add some new keywords by doing font-lock-add-keywords so
> that a FIXME keyword gets highlighted, which works quite well. When I
> try to change the color of the used face it doesn't work and probably
> somebody could give me a hint what the problem is here (I'm still a
> newbie regarding elisp programming).

I'm the author of wcheck-mode [1], so perhaps quite naturally I would
use it for this task too. Let's create a new language called "fixme" and
choose some face for highlighting:


    ;; Make sure the variable exists.
    (defvar wcheck-language-data nil)

    (push '("fixme"
            (program . (lambda (strings)
                         (when (member "FIXME" strings)
                           (list "FIXME"))))
            (face . highlight))
          wcheck-language-data)


This configuration uses face "highlight" but you can use any face you
want. Change languages with command wcheck-change-language and switch
the mode on and off with command wcheck-mode. See the Emacs wiki page
[1] for more information about wcheck-mode.

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 1. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WcheckMode