Re: Problem report: No syntax highlight for C

["Jie Zhang" <jzhang918@gmail.com>]

On 6/3/06, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 10:59:01AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > [Please don't take the discussion off the list]
>
> Yes, please don't!  Otherwise, I can't see it, and can't reply to it.
> :-(
>
Oops! This was not what I meant to do. It must be an accident.

> > > Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 08:59:41 +0800
> > > From: "Jie Zhang" <jzhang918@gmail.com>
> > > (emacs t.c)
> > > For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
> > > t.c has auto save data; consider M-x recover-this-file
> > > Loading cc-mode...done
> > > File mode specification error: (void-variable c-font-lock-keywords-3)
>
> > > The last line seems pointing out the cause of this issue.
>
> > Yes, it does.  But we have to find out what causes that error.
>
> This is (probably) the problem with eval-after-load that I was trying to
> fix with my recent amendments.  The following form in cc-mode.el:
>
>     (eval-after-load "font-lock"
>       '(require 'cc-fonts))
>
> fails to trigger if Emacs's directory (e.g. ~acm/emacs/emacs/) is
> actually a symbolic link to another directory.
>
> Jie, is this the way your Emacs directory is set up?  Are you actually

No.

> running the Emacs CVS?  (Try M-x emacs-version.  The CVS will tell you
> something like "GNU Emacs 22.0.50 ...." whereas the released version will
> be "GNU Emacs 21.4.1 .....".
>
Yes.

> As a workaround, please try putting the following into your .emacs:
>
> (require 'cc-mode)
> (require 'cc-fonts)
>
> Does this make the problem go away?
>
Yes.

Jie