Global Font Lock won't enable font lock in compilation mode until I switch windows

Global Font Lock won't enable font lock in compilation mode until I switch windows

[Stephanos Piperoglou]

I'm using GNU Emacs 21.1 under Win2k; I've got global-font-lock-mode
enabled, but whenever I start a compilation, the *compilation* buffer
doesn't get any font locking until I hit C-x o or otherwise switch
windows (e.g. by a mouse click or activating the mini-buffer).

I thought it might the fault of font-lock-support-mode, which I tried
setting to nil, but I got the same results.

Does anybody know how to make compilation mode buffers font-locked from
the moment compilation is started?

-S.


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Re: Global Font ...

[G Anna]

> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 17:16:27 +0100
> From: "Stephanos Piperoglou" <sp@bolero.net>
> Subj: Global Font Lock ...
                         ^^^ subject too long. snipped.

> I'm using GNU Emacs 21.1 under Win2k; I've got global-font-lock-mode
> enabled, but whenever I start a compilation, the *compilation*
> buffer doesn't get any font locking until I hit C-x o or otherwise
> switch windows (e.g. by a mouse click or activating the
> mini-buffer).

(snip)

I am sorry that my message won't help you directly.  But for emacs on
windows, you *might* get better help at help-emacs-windows@gnu.org

HTH

anna

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Re: Global Font Lock won't enable font lock in compilation mode until I switch windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Stephanos Piperoglou wrote:

> I'm using GNU Emacs 21.1 under Win2k; I've got global-font-lock-mode
> enabled, but whenever I start a compilation, the *compilation* buffer
> doesn't get any font locking until I hit C-x o or otherwise switch
> windows (e.g. by a mouse click or activating the mini-buffer).

I think this is a Windows-specific problem that was fixed in Emacs 21.2.  
Can you try the latest release?