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: Re: Font Lock Problems Date: 22 Oct 2003 14:44:33 +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: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066832173 30042 80.91.224.253 (22 Oct 2003 14:16:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:16:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 22 16:16:11 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 1ACJmU-0002Pz-00 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:16:11 +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 1ACJmD-0007Iu-PM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:15:53 -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!humbolt.nl.linux.org!news.nl.linux.org!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: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: wapping.cs.man.ac.uk 1066830273 18382 130.88.198.228 (22 Oct 2003 13:44:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@wapping.cs.man.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:44:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117526 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:13457 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13457 >>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier writes: >> Okay, thats fair enough. I've never done anything with the syntax >> table before, but I shall investigate. Stefan> Check out SampleMode in the emacswiki where it has an Stefan> example. Okay. >>>> 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. Stefan> Well, what is the value of `font-lock-mode' ? It's nil. This worried me, but I checked the value in other buffers which appear to be font locked and it was likewise null there. >> 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. Stefan> Don't use `font-lock-add-keywords' when defining a major Stefan> mode. See SampleMode for an example. Yes, this looks good. I shall work with this. Thanks Stefan Phil