Re: Face specifications in font-lock-keywords (part II).

[Lute Kamstra]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Lute Kamstra <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> However, using the fancy FACESPEC directly like this:
>>
>>   ("oele" . '(face font-lock-builtin-face))
>>   ("oele" . (0 '(face font-lock-builtin-face)))
>>
>> works only in the second case.  Is this a bug?
>
> Does removing the quotes work?
>
>   ("oele" . (face font-lock-builtin-face))
>   ("oele" . (0 (face font-lock-builtin-face)))

No.  (I tried.)  I think that Font Lock evaluates FACESPEC and uses
the result.  Maybe it doesn't parse font-lock-keywords correctly so
that it doesn't recognize a FACESPEC in this case:

  ("oele" . '(face font-lock-builtin-face))

Lute.