Re: cannot activate font-lock-mode

[Francesco Potorti`]

>> I had this in my local variables section:
>
>>  mode: font-lock
>>  font-lock-keywords: ("^\\S-.*:$")
>
>> which worked in Emacs 21, but does not work any more in Emacs 22.  I
>> solved the problem by writing instead:
>
>>  mode: font-lock
>>  font-lock-defaults: (("^\\S-.*:$"))
>
>I must say that I don't know why this has changed.
>Does the patch below fix your problem?

No, nothing changed.  If I use font-lock-keywords I get the message:
 "Toggling font-lock-mode off; better pass an explicit argument."