strange font lock (for latex) behavior in emacs

strange font lock (for latex) behavior in emacs

[HS]

First of all, my apologies for the cross postings, but I figured the 
problem could be solved by anyone in all these groups.

It is to do with font lock in emacs for Latex.

I have Auctex installed (ver 10.0g, release 4) with emacs (ver. 21.2 
release 18) on Redhat Linux 8.0 (kernal 2.4.18-14). When I open a .tex 
document, the font lock mode behaves in a strange way. Many commands are 
not highlighted at all (\documentclass, \maketitle, \item, {they are 
supposed to be highlighted I guess} etc). And sometimes, when I begin 
typing "\usepackage....", the usepackage command starts oft highlighted 
(in pink) but midway turns into normal text (black on white).

Moreover, I have also seen some highlights actually flash on and off at 
random interval!

Font-lock works perfectly in CC mode.

Quite honestly, at present I am not even sure where to start to look for 
a solution. So your comments are most welcome and all help is very much 
apprecaited.

Thanks,
->HS
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Re: strange font lock (for latex) behavior in emacs

[David Kastrup]

HS <g_reate_xcalibur@yahoo.com> writes:

> First of all, my apologies for the cross postings, but I figured the
> problem could be solved by anyone in all these groups.
> 
> It is to do with font lock in emacs for Latex.
> 
> I have Auctex installed (ver 10.0g, release 4) with emacs (ver. 21.2
> release 18) on Redhat Linux 8.0 (kernal 2.4.18-14).

That is entirely unnecessary.  10.0g is utterly outdated.  There are
RedHat RPM files available from the download site accessible from
AUCTeX's home site, <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/>, and I
would recommend 11.14 (the "beta" is just nominal here).

It is quite likely that will make your problems go away.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: strange font lock (for latex) behavior in emacs

[HS]

Hey,

Thanks, I just installed auctex-11.14-1.noarch.rpm (had to uninstall 
auctex-emacs that was there with the older auctex) and it seems to be 
working fine.

Thanks again,
->HS



David Kastrup wrote:
> HS <g_reate_xcalibur@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>First of all, my apologies for the cross postings, but I figured the
>>problem could be solved by anyone in all these groups.
>>
>>It is to do with font lock in emacs for Latex.
>>
>>I have Auctex installed (ver 10.0g, release 4) with emacs (ver. 21.2
>>release 18) on Redhat Linux 8.0 (kernal 2.4.18-14).
> 
> 
> That is entirely unnecessary.  10.0g is utterly outdated.  There are
> RedHat RPM files available from the download site accessible from
> AUCTeX's home site, <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/>, and I
> would recommend 11.14 (the "beta" is just nominal here).
> 
> It is quite likely that will make your problems go away.
> 



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