I'm cleaning up some code for my book and I noticed that I can probably get rid of the ";;; Local Variables:" section at the bottom of my files, at least so far as getting rid of thins like this:

;;; eval: (put 'walk-mp3s 'common-lisp-indent-function (get 'with-output-to-string 'common-lisp-indent-function))

However the other class of entries I have are things like this:

;;; eval: (font-lock-add-keywords 'lisp-mode '(("(\(define-binary-type\)\s +\(\(\w\|\s_\)+\)" (1 font-lock-keyword-face) (2 font-lock-function-name-face))))

It occurs to me that there might be a way for SWANK to tell SLIME to tell Emacs that certain macros should be font-locked a particular way. I haven't thought through how exactly this would work but it'd be cool to have SLIME/Emacs just do the right thing without having to litter my code with weird stuff just to tell Emacs how to turn my code into appropriately colored fruit salad.

Anyway, I may take a crack at implementing this in a couple weeks if it doesn't strike anyone else's fancy in the meantime. If you have suggestions/comments about how such a DWIM-font-locking ought to work, send 'em my way.

-Peter