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I created a highlighter for org-mode which worked great (pre orgmode 9.0). But now my customizations are being ignored...

Here is the excerpt from my init.el file:

    ;;; Create highlighter face
    (defface my-highlight-face
       '((t (:inherit org-default :foreground "#000000" :background "#ffffe7")))
       "Face for highlighting text")
    (defvar my-highlight1-face 'my-highlight1-face)

;; Add to list 
(setq org-emphasis-alist `(("*" bold)
                                 ("/" italic)
                                 ("_" underline)
                                 ("=" org-verbatim verbatim)
                                 ("~" org-code verbatim)
                                 ("+" ,(if (featurep 'xemacs) 'org-table '(:strike-through t)))
                                 ("!" my-highlight1-face verbatim)))

;;; Reload org to make it stick
(org-reload)

To check that this worked, I restart emacs and run M-x customize-variable > org-emphasis-alist. Scrolling down, I can see that my-highlight1-face has been added to the list:

screenshot of org-emphasis-alist

But opening a random org buffer and typing !text to highlight! does nothing.

What am I missing?

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  • Show the exact error message. 2. The ,(if...) won't be evaluated because you've hidden it inside quote - use backquote instead.
    • – Drew Jan 20 '18 at 15:06
  • Thanks @Drew. I updated my code to use backquote and I just ran --debug-init. The ccomplete error message is posted above. – Adam Jan 20 '18 at 15:55
  • @Drew I have updated my original post. Turns out the error I was getting had no relevance. Fixed this and also swapped in backquotes but this still doesn't work. Please see revised above. Thanks! – Adam Jan 20 '18 at 20:38
  • The marker in your lisp code is a sharp sign while in the custom buffer it is an exclamation mark. How does this go together? As a general rule: Don't mix customization via customization interface and setting up options via setq. This can cause all sorts of confusion (on the software side and on the human side). – Tobias Jan 20 '18 at 20:45
  • I actually have 4 different highlight faces. For the sake of brevity I paired this down to 1 for stackexchange but failed to select the same face for the screenshot. All my changes were done via setq. I'll revise the code above to match the screenshot. – Adam Jan 20 '18 at 21:27
  • Okay, I found this thread where another user was having a similar issue adding to org-emphasis-alist https://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/35626/12695 But I don't understand why this doesn't work, when I am overriding org-emphasis-alist and my changes are appearing in Customize? I even tried patching org.el and no go... – Adam Jan 20 '18 at 23:44