From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Lindner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Enabling global-font-lock-mode Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:11:27 +0200 Organization: T-Online Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3db823f4.31009449@news.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035483110 27266 80.91.224.249 (24 Oct 2002 18:11:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:11:50 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 184mSS-00075F-00 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:11:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 184mRy-00035Z-00; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:11:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1035482954 07 13272 9wu7bYlbSRYhE7 021024 18:09:14 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 340060635977-0001@t-dialin.net User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:106346 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2896 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2896 John McCabe wrote: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:39:29 +0200, Florian Lindner > wrote: > >>Hello, >>I want to enable Syntax Highlightning (Global font lock mode) >>Using this expression in my .emacs file is evaluated without errors but >>don't take effect. What's wrong? >> >>'(global-font-lock-mode t nil (font-lock)) > > What version of Emacs are you using? If anything after 20.0, use the > "Customize" features to do it rather than edit your .emacs. > > It may be under the "Help" menu, or the "Options" menu. Find the > "Customize" menu, then "Specific Option" and enter > global-font-lock-mode when asked. I prefer to edit the .emacs directly, it's a greater learn effect and I don't like to use things that I don't understand. Florian