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Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:

> I noticed that `hi-lock-mode' doesn't work properly in text mode (CVS
> Emacs): after I have added a regexp with `C-x w h', matches already
> in the buffer are highlighted, but matching text that I insert after
> that is not.

I think it works as intended.

> Also it seems to be impossible to add highlighting via
> font-lock-keywords to text mode.
>
> (font-lock-add-keywords nil 
>                         '(("\\<lirum larum\\>" . font-lock-warning-face)))
>
> I tried a lot to find the reason for this.

I think the deeper reason is that text-mode has no font-lock support.

Maybe it is easiest to just use your derived mode.
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