From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: No syntax highlighting in python mode Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 10:42:01 -0500 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: References: <44hbmfldaq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <44k4ra5wvz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Reply-To: tim@johnsons-web.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291828373 26674 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 17:12:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 17:12:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 18:12:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQNZQ-0001cq-Vy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:12:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41434 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQNZQ-0002VQ-1R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:12:48 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 10:42:01 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: sv3-pdMhKhqiwQNgdli408PiU3vdD2gwlyetENzx2FbOmAxMyiRg8cBFQ1XqfgRkrCXnRKyoIZ9bf25IdnO!4D4StRzrylT0PdvhCZ7m2AyTol9vNnF8OVEFl6Gwn1Gh6uWoIeUTznCY8xvCL+CoKYeK1a4= Original-X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178159 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75674 Archived-At: On 2010-05-11, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Tim Johnson writes: <...> >> My problem may be from a side effect of something else in my .emacs >> or other configuration. > > It may be something not under your own control, however. > In particular, some OS distributions add their own local > configurations to their emacs installations. > > I recommend doing the same test I did. If it has the same > problem you saw with your configuration, try the option > "--no-site-file" as well. Done. And with the --no-site-file option syntax highlighting is the same. However, using -q (--no-init-file, -q load neither ~/.emacs nor default.el) I have highlighting. I could probably find the problem by going thru my .emacs line by line, but I'm happy just to use 'require. thanks again -- Tim tim at johnsons-web.com or akwebsoft.com http://www.akwebsoft.com