highlight-defined

highlight-defined is an Emacs minor mode that highlights defined Emacs Lisp symbols in source code.

Currently it recognizes Lisp function, built-in function, macro, face and variable names.

Installation

The package is available in MELPA.

If you have MELPA in package-archives, use

M-x package-install RET highlight-defined RET

If you don't, open highlight-defined.el in Emacs and call package-install-from-buffer.

Usage

To turn it on:

M-x highlight-defined-mode

To turn it on automatically:

(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'highlight-defined-mode)

Customization

Change the following faces:

• highlight-defined-function-name-face
• highlight-defined-builtin-function-name-face
• highlight-defined-special-form-name-face
• highlight-defined-macro-name-face
• highlight-defined-variable-name-face
• highlight-defined-face-name-face

If you want to highlight face name by the face itself, set highlight-defined-face-use-itself to a non-nil value.