Re: Apply Emacs-Lisp `font-lock' rules to a string

[Alexander Shukaev]

>>> (minibuffer-message
>>>  (my-font-lock-string #'emacs-lisp-mode "\"\\\\(1\\\\|2\\\\)\""))
>>
>> Oops, got the arguments backward there:
>>
>> (minibuffer-message
>>  (my-font-lock-string "\"\\\\(1\\\\|2\\\\)\"" #'emacs-lisp-mode))
>
> Cool!  Thanks, John.  I just want to point out that plain `message'
> also works fine if you do it like this (which is recommended anyway,
> even in the documentation):
>
> (message "%s" (my-font-lock-string ...))

Nevertheless, I still can't find a way to make

(user-error "%s" (my-font-lock-string ...))

display colored output.  Any suggestions?

Regards,
Alexander