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Re: Font Lock Problems
From: |
Phillip Lord |
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Re: Font Lock Problems |
Date: |
22 Oct 2003 14:44:33 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 |
>>>>> "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
Re: Font Lock Problems, Harald Maier, 2003/10/23