From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Font Lock Problems Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:03:34 GMT Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066767382 23330 80.91.224.253 (21 Oct 2003 20:16:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:16:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 21 22:16:17 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AC2vR-0007bw-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:16:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AC2v2-000147-Be for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:15:52 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!charlie.risq.qc.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.24.42 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca Original-X-Trace: charlie.risq.qc.ca 1066766614 132.204.24.42 (Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:03:34 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:03:34 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117507 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13438 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13438 > Okay, thats fair enough. I've never done anything with the syntax > table before, but I shall investigate. Check out SampleMode in the emacswiki where it has an example. >>> This works fine an does what I expect (that is for each line >>> highlights ">>>>" in one colour, all the text before it in >>> another, and all the text after it in another). But its does it >>> very lazily. In fact I have to call "font-lock-fontify-buffer" to >>> get it to do any fontification at all. Stefan> Have you turned font-lock-mode ON ? > I presume so. Well, what is the value of `font-lock-mode' ? > I am using global-font-lock-mode. Do I have to add something to my > mode to provide support for font-lock? I'm currently defining my mode > as a derived mode from text-mode. Don't use `font-lock-add-keywords' when defining a major mode. See SampleMode for an example. Stefan