From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Font Lock Problems Date: 21 Oct 2003 16:31:24 +0100 Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K. Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066753013 22970 80.91.224.253 (21 Oct 2003 16:16:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:16:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 21 18:16:47 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABzBf-0007MD-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:16:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ABzAo-0007PI-62 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:15:54 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!news2.telebyte.nl!zen.net.uk!130.88.203.18.MISMATCH!peernews.mcc.ac.uk!cs.man.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: wapping.cs.man.ac.uk 1066750284 14604 130.88.198.228 (21 Oct 2003 15:31:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@wapping.cs.man.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:31:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117485 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13419 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13419 I'm trying to add support for font lock to a small mode I have written. I am defining the font lock keywords like so... (defvar language-speak-delimiter " >>>> ") (font-lock-add-keywords 'language-speak-mode (list (cons language-speak-delimiter font-lock-keyword-face) (list (concat "\\(.*\\)" language-speak-delimiter) 1 font-lock-string-face) (list (concat language-speak-delimiter "\\(.*\\)") 1 font-lock-type-face))) (font-lock-add-keywords 'language-speak-mode '(("#.*" 0 font-lock-comment-face))) 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. I'd like it to work a little bit more "on the fly". Can anyone tell me why it is not? Phil