[slime-devel] Re: Font-lock trickery

Nikodemus Siivola wrote:

Instead of doing something useful I spent the first part of the day coaxing/cargo-culting emacs to fontify user-definied defoo forms nicely.

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Won't take effect without restarting emacs -- or some other trickery that I'm not aware of.

Just rerunning M-x lisp-mode RET should do the trick.

The way to really do this is to push these keywords onto a new font-lock-keywords variable, like:

(defvar lisp-font-lock-keywords-3 (append lisp-font-lock-keywords-2 list-as-above))

Then, if users have font-lock-maximum-decoration set to either t, or 3, these extra keywords will be picked up, otherwise they won't.

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