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On August 14, 2009 4:21:56 PM CEDT, gento
<gento_distef...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I've made this modification to .emacs
>
> (add-hook 'find-file-hooks
>   (lambda ()
>      (when (string-match "\\.jou$" (buffer-file-name))
>         (setq comment-start "/")
>         (font-lock-add-keywords nil '("\\(/.*\\)$" (1 font-lock-comment-face)))
>      )
>   )
> )
>
> but I still have no coloring of the commented lines :(


It works for me (with emacs 22.3.1).  Have you evaluated the above
form?

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__Pascal Bourguignon__