I'm trying to define some emacs font faces to do some custom highlighting. This seems to work when I define them individually:
(defface my-r-face `((t (:foreground "red"))) "Red highlight")
(defvar m-r-face 'my-r-face "Red.")
(defface my-g-face `((t (:foreground "green"))) "Green highlight")
(defvar m-g-face 'my-g-face "Green.")
(defface my-b-face `((t (:foreground "#0088ff"))) "Blue highlight")
(defvar m-b-face 'my-b-face "Blue.")
....etc
However I have a few dozen of these and I want to define them all in one go from some kind of colour table:
(setq ctable '(("red" "r")
("orange" "o")
("yellow" "y")
("#88ff00" "gy")
("green" "g")
("#00ff88" "gc")
("cyan" "c")
("#0088ff" "bc")
("blue" "b")
("purple" "bm")
("magenta" "m")
("#ff0088" "rm")
("grey" "lg")
("white" "w") ))
My difficulty is with assembling the symbol names for each face, ie concatenating "my-" and "-face" onto either side of an entry from the table. I have discovered (intern) that can make a new symbol from a string, however this symbol is then not acceptable to (defface), as it seems what I am doing is equivalent to (defface 'my-r-face ..., and defface doesn't like the quoted symbol, and expects (defface my-r-face .. instead. My attempt is as follows:
(dolist (tpl ctable)
(defvar (intern (concat "my-" (nth 1 tpl) "-face"))
(quote (intern (concat "my-" (nth 1 tpl) "-face"))) "colour")
(defface (intern (concat "my-" (nth 1 tpl) "-face"))
`((t (:foreground ,(car tpl)))) "Highlight" :group 'fortran)
)
Running this results in
Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument symbolp (intern (concat "fegs-" (nth 1 tpl) "-face")))
(defvar (intern (concat "fegs-" ... "-face")) (quote (intern ...)) "colour")
Can anyone shed some light on what I'm doing wrong, or if I'm barking up the wrong tree entirely and there is a better way of doing this?
Thanks.