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>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier writes:
>> (font-lock-add-keywords 'language-speak-mode '(("#.*" 0
>> font-lock-comment-face)))
Stefan> Better setup the syntax-table properly to mark # as a
Stefan> comment-startand \n as comment-end.
Okay, thats fair enough. I've never done anything with the syntax
table before, but I shall investigate.
>> 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.
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.
Phil