From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Peterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Adding sql-mode hook Date: 16 Oct 2006 09:40:37 -0700 Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: References: <1160996344.561653.57480@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> <1161011418.329258.176420@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161020486 32137 80.91.229.2 (16 Oct 2006 17:41:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:41:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 16 19:41:26 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 1GZWSe-0003AL-1T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:41:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZWSd-0003mu-Hf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:41:11 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!ucdavis!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 49 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pc9.cs.ucdavis.edu Original-X-Trace: skeeter.ucdavis.edu 1161016837 12910 169.237.5.34 (16 Oct 2006 16:40:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ucdavis.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:40:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142459 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:38080 Archived-At: "Krishna" writes: > Sam Peterson wrote: > > "calvinkrishy@gmail.com" writes: > > > > > Am trying to add a sql-mode hook with > > > > > > (add-hook 'sql-mode-hook 'sql-highlight-oracle-keywords) > > > > > > in my .emacs but none of the oracle keywords are highlighted when I > > > enter SQL mode. Only invoking the sql-highlight-oracle-keywords > > > function seems to highlight them. What is it that I am missing? Why > > > don't the keywords get highlighted as soon as I open a SQL file? > > > > > > Emacs version 21.3.1 on Windows 2000. > > > > Out of curiosity, does sql-highlight-oracle-keywords toggle the > > feature? From the help: > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > |sql-highlight-oracle-keywords is an interactive compiled Lisp > > |function in `sql'. (sql-highlight-oracle-keywords) > > | > > |Highlight Oracle keywords. > > |Basically, this just sets `font-lock-keywords' appropriately. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > It doesn't look like it does. There doesn't appear to be an autoload > > for the function however. Try putting (require 'sql) before the > > add-hook line. Not sure if that'll help, just a thought. > > Thanks. but that still doesn't highlight the keywords. > But as I said doing a 'M-x sql-highlight-oracle-keywords' has the > desired effect of highlighting the key words. Would be nice if I could > get that as soon as I open a sql file. > > Krishna > Sound like the only other possibility is that there's a bug in how sql-mode sets font-lock-keywords. In otherwords, it sets it after the sql-mode-hook, which clobbers what sql-highlight-oracle-keywords does. Might be something worth investigating. -- Sam Peterson skpeterson At nospam ucdavis.edu "if programmers were paid to remove code instead of adding it, software would be much better" -- unknown