Jeronimo Pellegrini j_p@aleph0.info writes:
I have noticed that when I define my own macros and functions, SLIME knows their syntax. If I do:
(my-function-name
SLIME will show the syntax at the minibuffer.
(For the record: that is when SLIME-AUTODOC-MODE is T.)
Now, since SLIME knows about my own macros/functions, I wonder if it is possible for it to also do syntax highlighting for them? (Perhaps in a different color from the standard Lisp keywords?)
On a related not, I see that some Lisp identifiers (do, dotimes, etc) are highlighted, but some are not. From what I can see, only those that are related to control flow are highlighted. Am I right? And is that possible to get the rest of the identifiers highlighted?
Syntax highlighting is called `font-lock' (or fontifying) in Emacs; and fontifying is defined by Emacs, and as such completely orthogonal to Slime. Look at the end of the file `font-lock.el' (or .el.gz) within your Emacs distribution. (Especially `lisp-font-lock-keywords-2'.)
In general, only standard macros and special forms are highlighted specially. I've got the following in my ~/.emacs, however:
(font-lock-add-keywords 'lisp-mode '(("(\(\(define-\|do-\|with-\)\(\s_\|\w\)*\)" 1 font-lock-keyword-face)))
So all symbols beginning with `define-', `do-', or `with-' are highlighted specially. (As these should denote macros.)
You may like that, too!
-T.