From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: syntax highlighting Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 02:15:41 +0000 Message-ID: <874mty1sj6.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <43671709-e657-44d7-81c7-36aa6398706f@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416190585 24340 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2014 02:16:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 02:16:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: mzp3769@gmail.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 03:16:15 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XqBrP-0007Cq-P2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:16:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45833 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqBrP-0001nL-9L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 21:16:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43789) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqBr6-0001nG-7H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 21:16:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqBqy-0001EY-0T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 21:15:52 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp04.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.35]:40561) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqBqx-0001EK-Qj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 21:15:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail04.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.17]) by outbound-smtp04.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9595C9853C for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 02:12:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 19820 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2014 02:15:42 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.76.106.236]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 17 Nov 2014 02:15:42 -0000 In-Reply-To: <43671709-e657-44d7-81c7-36aa6398706f@googlegroups.com> (mzp3769@gmail.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.35 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100978 Archived-At: mzp3769@gmail.com writes: > Every time I upgrade to higher emacs I have the same problem - syntax highlighting and the previous command in .emacs does not work. > How to turn this option off in 24.4.1 ? Also, you may want to try using fonts instead of colours for highlighting. Some find this easier. For example, using one colour for all text you can set comments to italics, types to bold and keywords to bold-italics. You can do that by customizing the faces or using the new themes mechanism. I expect someone has already written a theme that provides this. BR, Robert Thorpe