Re: font-lock and regexp-opt

[August Karlstrom]

Mads Jensen wrote:
> I am trying to write my first major mode, where I'd like to use
> font-lock-mode to colorize some words. I browsed some code, and saw that
> people are using regexp-opt for this, so I went with this approach,
> too. Therefore, I have:
>
> (defconst inducks-keywords 
>   (regexp-opt '(...) t) "inducks fields to colorize")

(regexp-opt '(...) 'words) is even better.

> And wrote the following:
>
> (defconst inducks-font-heroes
>   (list 
>    (cons 
>     (concat "\\<\\(" inducks-keywords "\\)\\>")
>     'inducks-keyword)))
>
> Is this a good way to do it ? It doesn't compile. 

How does the compilation fail. Which version of Emacs are you using and 
on what operating system? Have you `M-x h f regexp-opt' etc.


August