Emacs: highlighting "self" tweak

[Sjoerd Mullender]

On Wed, Jul 7 1999 Preston Landers wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> This is what I did to highlight 'self' in my Python files.
> 
> It's a small (unified context) patch against python-mode.el version
> 3.90, the lastest as far as I know.  It shouldn't be too hard to patch
> it against older versions of python-mode (you only need to insert 3
> lines at a certain spot.)
> 
> I wish I knew of an easy way to make it a hook instead of a patch.  If
> someone can figure that out, I would *love* to hear from you.

You can use this piece of magic in your .emacs file (tested on XEmacs
21.1):

(add-to-list 'after-load-alist
	     (cons "python-mode"
		   '((add-to-list (quote python-font-lock-keywords)
				  (quote ("\\b\\(self\\)[ .,]?"
					  1 font-lock-type-face))))))

This changes the python-font-lock-keywords variable right after
python-mode is loaded.

-- Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd.mullender at oratrix.com>