From: Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Font Lock Problems
Date: 22 Oct 2003 14:44:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vfr815z8se.fsf@rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvismi5pkn.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@vor.iro.umontreal.ca
>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Okay, thats fair enough. I've never done anything with the syntax
>> table before, but I shall investigate.
Stefan> Check out SampleMode in the emacswiki where it has an
Stefan> example.
Okay.
>>>> 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.
Stefan> Well, what is the value of `font-lock-mode' ?
It's nil. This worried me, but I checked the value in other buffers
which appear to be font locked and it was likewise null there.
>> 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.
Stefan> Don't use `font-lock-add-keywords' when defining a major
Stefan> mode. See SampleMode for an example.
Yes, this looks good. I shall work with this.
Thanks Stefan
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-22 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-21 15:31 Font Lock Problems Phillip Lord
2003-10-21 16:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-21 17:08 ` Phillip Lord
2003-10-21 20:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-22 13:44 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2003-10-22 14:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-22 15:09 ` Phillip Lord
2003-10-23 15:49 ` Phillip Lord
2003-10-23 5:18 ` Harald Maier
2003-10-23 14:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-23 15:53 ` Harald Maier
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