From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: YAD Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: modes not doing much Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:09:34 -0500 Organization: Prairienet, The Community Network For East Central Illinois Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155372110 32660 80.91.229.2 (12 Aug 2006 08:41:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:41:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 12 10:41:48 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GBp3x-0003AL-NE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:41:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GBp3w-000816-VV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 04:41:44 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.prairienet.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: slip-69.prairienet.org Original-X-Trace: wildfire.prairienet.org 1155369601 18740 192.17.3.89 (12 Aug 2006 08:00:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: newsmgr@prairienet.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:00:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140998 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36623 Archived-At: So far I've used Ruby mode and HTML mode. No colors, no auto-indent on . So what are the modes doing? Vim and even the Firefox source viewer have syntax-based colors. Isn't Emacs supposed to do that too? Also, Lisp .cl files and Python .py files are coming up in Fundamental mode, while OCaml .ml files come up in Lisp mode. What the heck is going on? :( -- Yet another Dan