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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Font Lock Problems
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:11:50 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8yne7ero.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@vor.iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vfekx6hak3.fsf@rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk

> (font-lock-add-keywords
>  'language-speak-mode
>  '(("#.*" 0 font-lock-comment-face)))

Better setup the syntax-table properly to mark # as a comment-startand
\n as comment-end.

> This works fine an does what I expect (that is for each line
> highlights ">>>>" in one colour, all the text before it in another,
> and all the text after it in another). But its does it very
> lazily. In fact I have to call "font-lock-fontify-buffer" to get it to
> do any fontification at all. 

Have you turned font-lock-mode ON ?


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-21 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-21 15:31 Font Lock Problems Phillip Lord
2003-10-21 16:11 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-10-21 17:08   ` Phillip Lord
2003-10-21 20:03     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-22 13:44       ` Phillip Lord
2003-10-22 14:10         ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-22 15:09           ` Phillip Lord
2003-10-23 15:49       ` Phillip Lord
2003-10-23  5:18   ` Harald Maier
2003-10-23 14:21     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-23 15:53       ` Harald Maier

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