From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Font Lock Problems
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:03:34 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvismi5pkn.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@vor.iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vfllrefrho.fsf@rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk
> Okay, thats fair enough. I've never done anything with the syntax
> table before, but I shall investigate.
Check out SampleMode in the emacswiki where it has an example.
>>> 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.
Stefan> Have you turned font-lock-mode ON ?
> I presume so.
Well, what is the value of `font-lock-mode' ?
> I am using global-font-lock-mode. Do I have to add something to my
> mode to provide support for font-lock? I'm currently defining my mode
> as a derived mode from text-mode.
Don't use `font-lock-add-keywords' when defining a major mode.
See SampleMode for an example.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-21 20:03 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
2003-10-21 17:08 ` Phillip Lord
2003-10-21 20:03 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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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