Re: A problem in using font-lock-add-keywords

[source liu]

done!
the quote teach me a lesson.  Thank you, Dmitry

by the way, if i use this way, are there any restriction to the list,
i mean, length, or size of the 'mylist' as metioned below.


> The problem is likely with quoting. You need to expand the `regexp-opt'
> call:
>
> (font-lock-add-keywords nil
>  `((,(regexp-opt mylist t) 1 font-lock-warning-face prepend)
>    ("\\<\\(and\\|or\\|not\\)\\>" . font-lock-keyword-face))
>
> By the way, as long as you want to highlight the whole match, you can
> use the group number 0 and no grouping.



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Liu An
Institution of modern physics, Shanghai, China