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From: Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Font Lock Problems
Date: 21 Oct 2003 18:08:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vfllrefrho.fsf@rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv8yne7ero.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@vor.iro.umontreal.ca

>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

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

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

Okay, thats fair enough. I've never done anything with the syntax
table before, but I shall investigate. 


  >> 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. 

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.

Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-21 17:08 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 [this message]
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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