In some older versions, I&#39;ve noticed font-lock-mode is not enabled.  I frequently ssh into a server and it&#39;s emacs 21.x<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Rustom Mody <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rustompmody@gmail.com">rustompmody@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

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enable font-lock-mode<br><br>either <br><br>M-x font-lock-mode<br><br>or  in your new .emacs file<br><br>(global-font-lock-mode 1)<div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Shiyuan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gshy2014@gmail.com" target="_blank">gshy2014@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>




<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">Hi, <div>    I  lost the font color in c++-mode after I deleted  the .emacs file mistakenly. What do I need in my .emacs in order to display different colors in c++-mode? Thanks. </div>




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</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div><br><br>font-lock should be on by default no? (At least in recent emacses)<br>So... Whats your emacs-version? ie M-x emacs-version<br>And what is the behavior when you start it with emacs -Q foo.cpp?<br>


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