On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:09:24 -0600, Kevin Rodgers wrote: > Bert Geens wrote: > > Thanks a lot, i had looked at font-lock-defaults but apparently not hard > > enough... > > > > So I tried this: > > (set (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults) '(fvwm-font-lock-keywords > > nil fvwm-keywords-ignore-case)) > > But that apparently didn't work, I wonder why? > > Because the CASE-FOLD entry is not like the KEYWORDS entry. To cite the > doc string again: > > KEYWORDS may be a symbol (a variable or function whose value is > the keywords to use for fontification) or a list of symbols. > > But no similar statement is made about CASE-FOLD, so you want the actual > value of fvwm-keywords-ignore-case: > > (set (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults) > (list 'fvwm-font-lock-keywords nil fvwm-keywords-ignore-case)) > > or: > > (set (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults) > `(fvwm-font-lock-keywords nil ,fvwm-keywords-ignore-case)) > > That being said, using any non-nil object for CASE-FOLD (such as the > fvwm-keywords-ignore-case symbol) should result in case-insensitive > font-locking. > > > I now use this, which does work though, but the above solution would be > > cleaner imho... > > > > (if fvwm-keywords-ignore-case > > (set (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults) > '(fvwm-font-lock-keywords)) > > (set (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults) > > '(fvwm-font-lock-keywords nil t))) > > That looks backwards. If fvwm-keywords-ignore-case is set, I'd expect > you to specify CASE-FOLD as non-nil. But you are specifying CASE-FOLD > as t when fvwm-keywords-ignore-case is nil.
I'm in the middle of my exams, so that's why I'm replying a bit slow, and why I'm sleeping too little, thanks for the explanation, I'll get that fixed before I release a new version :) Cheers Bert _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs