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From: Henrik Enberg <henrik+news@enberg.org>
Subject: Re: FAQ 5.44 leaves still one thing desired for font-lock
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 09:26:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k759yqxm.fsf@enberg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 849e4506.0312061922.a60fcf1@posting.google.com

bhushit@hotmail.com (Bhushit Joshipura) writes:

> My [x]emacs on Redhat 9.0 does not syntax highlight automatically. I
> tried Emacs FAQ and found a suggestion to add this line to my .emacs.
>
> (global-font-lock-mode 1)

Are you sure that you're saving this to the correct file?  That should
be enough (It is for me).

Try doing "C-x C-f ~/.emacs".  Do you get the correct file?

[...]

> And to end all these questions, is there a .emacs or .xemacs
> generator? It may let me select or deselect all options for a standard
> [x]emacs - backspace / delete, keymaps, syntax highlighting, ... and
> dump .emacs or .xemacs ?

Not that I know of, but M-x customize might be easier to use for
non-lispers.  It bresents you with a browsable interface for Emacs
options.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-07  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-07  3:22 FAQ 5.44 leaves still one thing desired for font-lock Bhushit Joshipura
2003-12-07  4:41 ` Tim McNamara
2003-12-07  8:26 ` Henrik Enberg [this message]

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