bug#12168: Subject: 24.1; highlight-regexp not working in v24

[Justin Heyes-Jones]

Hi

I noticed that I get different behavior with highlight-regexp in emacs

24.1.1 than in 23. Loading the file below, the text that is in the file

when it loads will be highlighted in the correct color, but typing new

text will not highlight. In the previous version the highlighting would

update dynamically as you type.

This is the windows version running under exactly the same

environment. If I switch back to 23 it's fine.

FILE START

A test of colour syntax highlighting

When I type yellow it should go yellow, and green goes green

// This enables custom syntax highlighting 

// Local Variables:

// eval: (progn (highlight-regexp "yellow" 'hi-yellow) (highlight-regexp "red" 'hi-red-b) (highlight-regexp "green" 'hi-green) (highlight-regexp "blue" 'hi-blue-b))

// end:

FILE END

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,

please include the output from the following gdb commands:

    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.

For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file

c:/emacs-24.1/etc/DEBUG.

In GNU Emacs 24.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)

 of 2012-06-10 on MARVIN

Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601

Configured using:

 `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --cflags

 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include

 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src

 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include

 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include

 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include

 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include

 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include

 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include'

Important settings:

  value of $LC_ALL: nil

  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil

  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil

  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil

  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil

  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil

  value of $LC_TIME: nil

  value of $LANG: ENC

  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil

  locale-coding-system: cp1252

  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Text

Minor modes in effect:

  hi-lock-mode: t

  yas/global-mode: t

  yas/minor-mode: t

  tooltip-mode: t

  mouse-wheel-mode: t

  file-name-shadow-mode: t

  global-font-lock-mode: 1

  font-lock-mode: t

  blink-cursor-mode: t

  auto-composition-mode: t

  auto-encryption-mode: t

  auto-compression-mode: t

  line-number-mode: t

  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:

C-x C-f D r o p b <tab> e s t <backspace> <backspace> 

<backspace> t e s t / t <backspace> <backspace> . . 

t x <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> t x t <return> 

y <down> <down> <down> <down> y e l l o w SPC g r e 

e n SPC C-a <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> C-SPC <down> <down> 

<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 

M-w <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> M-x r e p o r t - e m 

<tab> <return>

Recent messages:

Loading c:/justinhj/Dropbox/localemacs/color-theme-6.6.0/themes/color-theme-library.el (source)...done

Loading c:/justinhj/Dropbox/localemacs/.emacs...done

[yas] Loading for `emacs-lisp-mode', just-in-time: (yas/load-directory-1 c:/justinhj/Dropbox/localemacs/yasnippet/snippets/emacs-lisp-mode (quote emacs-lisp-mode) (quote (text-mode)))!

[yas] Loading compiled snippets from c:/justinhj/Dropbox/localemacs/yasnippet/snippets/emacs-lisp-mode

[yas] Loading for `text-mode', just-in-time: (yas/load-directory-1 c:/justinhj/Dropbox/localemacs/yasnippet/snippets/text-mode (quote text-mode) (quote nil))!

[yas] Loading compiled snippets from c:/justinhj/Dropbox/localemacs/yasnippet/snippets/text-mode

For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

Please type y, n, or !: y

byte-code: Beginning of buffer

Mark set

Load-path shadows:

None found.

Features:

(shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml

mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev

gmm-utils mailheader hi-lock clojure-mode-autoloads eredis-autoloads

htmlize-autoloads slime-repl-autoloads slime-autoloads server webjump

browse-url justins-utils date-util timezone windmove

color-theme-solarized lively yasnippet dropdown-list derived advice

advice-preload easy-mmode help-mode view ace-jump-mode help-fns package

tabulated-list color-theme edmacro kmacro wid-edit cl sendmail

regexp-opt rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils

reporter easymenu time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type

mwheel dos-w32 disp-table ls-lisp w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset

image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select

scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham

georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao

korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic

indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple

abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces cus-face files text-properties

overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget

hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process multi-tty emacs)