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Re: Running highlight-regexp in elisp function - not working
From: |
Alex Kost |
Subject: |
Re: Running highlight-regexp in elisp function - not working |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Apr 2014 08:46:14 +0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Angus Comber (2014-04-03 16:17 +0400) wrote:
> Hi
>
> I want to run this elisp code to highlight various sections of text in a
> particular type of log file.
>
> I tried:
>
> (defun abc-log ()
> "abc log file highlighting"
> (interactive)
> (goto-char (point-min))
> (highlight-regexp "message Event.*" hi-yellow)
> )
>
> But when I run I get error:
>
> Symbol's value as variable is void: hi-yellow
>
> And it doesn't highlight.
>
> I just want to be able to highlight-regexp on specific text and use
> hi-yellow. What am I doing wrong?
>
The error says it all: you use `hi-yellow' as a variable, it should be:
(highlight-regexp "message Event.*" 'hi-yellow)