Hi Stephen, I do not upload any XEmacs package (that I am aware of), I use simply the standalone Windows-21.4.19 version. Basically, in standard lisp format I would like to highlight any text in a buffer defined by a regexp. For example make bold or highlight all occurrences of " W... " (all four-letter words starting with W) Thank you for your reply. Sirano -----Original Message----- From: xemacs-beta-bounces(a)xemacs.org [mailto:xemacs-beta-bounces＠xemacs.org] On Behalf Of Stephen J. Turnbull Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 11:25 PM To: Sirano Dhe-Paganon Cc: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org Subject: simple question regexp-face Sirano Dhe-Paganon writes: You'll have to tell us what the arguments of set-regexp-face-interactively are. I don't have that function in my XEmacs; if it's in a package, it's not autoloaded, either. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta

Thank you very much! Works! The single quote versus the double quote made all the difference! Cheers, S. -----Original Message----- From: Stephen J. Turnbull [mailto:stephen＠xemacs.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 10:13 PM To: Sirano Dhe-Paganon Cc: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org Subject: RE: simple question regexp-face Sirano Dhe-Paganon writes: a Yes, I basically understand what you want to do at the UI level. I can write a Lisp function to do that, but I'd rather not spend the time because there is a truckload of details about UI we'd have to thrash out. But you *also* specify an implementation, which presumably you'd like to get working. I can't help you with that when none of it makes sense in my XEmacs. I still don't understand where the function `set-regexp-face-interactively' comes from, and what are the arguments "V" and "highlight"? Is that a function you defined? Is "highlight" supposed to be a face? Once again, that function is not present in my XEmacs, at least not the way I use it. It might be a function in a package I happen not to use, but interactive functions like that are normally autoloaded so at least the documentation and arguments are available via C-h f. C-h f does not know about that function in my installation. With no documentation, it's really hard to give you any advice at all. The only thing I can suggest is that face names are symbols, not strings, so (set-regexp-face-interactively "V" 'highlight) might do what you want. [mailto:xemacs-beta-bounces＠xemacs.org] _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta