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any idea?

On 8 Set, 10:26, gento <gento_distef...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm using emacs to edit journal text files *.jou, for which commented
> lines
> start with the character "/".
>
> I apply the comment syntax for the "*.jou" files by adding to
> the .emacs file
> the lines
>
> (add-hook 'find-file-hooks
> =A0(lambda ()
> =A0 (when (string-match "\\.jou$" (buffer-file-name))
> =A0 =A0(setq comment-start "/")
> =A0 )
> =A0)
> )
>
> Now I would also like to turn the text of the commented lines into
> red, and for this
> I added the line
>
> (font-lock-add-keywords nil '("\\(/.*\\)$" (1 font-lock-comment-
> face)))
>
> which unfortunately doesn=92t work.
>
> Does anybody know where the mistake is?
> Many thanks
>
> gento