Re: New Package for GNU ELPA

[Ian Dunn]

On 2016-05-22, Cl?ment Pit--Claudel wrote:
> > ;; Add font lock for both macros.
> > (font-lock-add-keywords
> >  'emacs-lisp-mode
> >  '(("(\\(define-hook-helper\\)\\_>[ \t]*\\(\\(?:\\sw\\|\\s_\\)+\\)?"
> >     (1 font-lock-keyword-face)
> >     (2 font-lock-constant-face nil t))
> >    ("(\\(define-mode-hook-helper\\)\\_>[ \t]*\\(\\(?:\\sw\\|\\s_\\)+\\)?"
> >     (1 font-lock-keyword-face)
> >     (2 font-lock-constant-face nil t))))
> 
> Is there a reason why these two macros aren't highlighted properly by 
> default? I don't think other packages do this.
> 

Yes and no.  Yes, as macros, they have their name highlighted, but to emphasise 
the significance of the second argument, I wanted that be highlighted as well.

I know for a fact that both use-package and hydra do this same thing, as I used 
the two of them as an example when creating the above code.

Also, please CC me on any replies to this, and not just the mailing list.  I'm 
sure it was just a mistake.

-- 
Ian Dunn