Colourising tex keywords

[fatiparty]

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Jan 12, 2022, 01:22 by help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org:

> fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
>
>> Have constructed a set of tex symbols stored in (defvar
>> texcom-colour
>>
>> I want to highlight tex commands such as \alpha using colour
>>
>
> See if this works in Emacs Lisp mode, if/when it does (it does
> here) do the same for your mode, if it doesn't work there,
> well then something is up ...
>

I have done as you suggested using (font-lock-add-keywords 'texi-mode

The tex keywords still do not get highlighted.


> (font-lock-add-keywords 'emacs-lisp-mode
>  '(
>  ("font-lock-builtin-face"              .  font-lock-builtin-face)
>  ("font-lock-comment-delimiter-face"    .  font-lock-comment-delimiter-face)
>  ("font-lock-comment-face"              .  font-lock-comment-face)
>  ("font-lock-constant-face"             .  font-lock-constant-face)
>  ("font-lock-doc-face"                  .  font-lock-doc-face)
>  ("font-lock-function-name-face"        .  font-lock-function-name-face)
>  ("font-lock-keyword-face"              .  font-lock-keyword-face)
>  ("font-lock-negation-char-face"        .  font-lock-negation-char-face)
>  ("font-lock-preprocessor-face"         .  font-lock-preprocessor-face)
>  ("font-lock-reference-face"            .  font-lock-reference-face)
>  ("font-lock-regexp-grouping-backslash" . 
> 'font-lock-regexp-grouping-backslash)
>  ("font-lock-regexp-grouping-construct" . 
> 'font-lock-regexp-grouping-construct)
>  ("font-lock-string-face"               .  font-lock-string-face)
>  ("font-lock-type-face"                 .  font-lock-type-face)
>  ("font-lock-variable-name-face"        .  font-lock-variable-name-face)
>  ("font-lock-warning-face"              .  font-lock-warning-face)
>  )
>  t)
>
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