Re: (global-font-lock-mode 1) does not bind `font-lock-keywords' in .emacs?

[Jorgen Schaefer]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> The following .emacs:
>
>>   (global-font-lock-mode 1)
>>   (diary)
>
>> and an empty ~/diary file will cause Emacs (CVS from 2005-09-12)
>> to give an error that `font-lock-keywords' is unbound in
>> `normal-mode'.
>
> Can't reproduce "it", although I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed
> to reproduce.  I did the following:
>
>   % touch ~/diary
>   % emacs -q --eval '(progn (global-font-lock-mode 1) (diary))'
>
> and didn't get any error.  What error do you get?  Can you get a backtrace
> for it?

Well, this is curiosity I mentioned in my original email: The bug
only happens when this is in .emacs, not when it's called
otherwise. Even emacs -q -l .emacs doesn't give the error.

When the above code is all I have in my .emacs, my Emacs barfs at
startup:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable font-lock-keywords)
  normal-mode(t)
  after-find-file(nil nil)
  find-file-noselect-1(#<buffer diary> "~/diary" t nil "~/diary" (222092 5634))
  find-file-noselect("~/diary" t)

>> Adding a (message "Bound: %S" (boundp 'font-lock-keywords))
>> verifies that it is indeed unbound after the call to
>> `global-font-lock-mode'.
>
> I don't see why that should be a problem,

`normal-mode' checks whether `font-lock-mode' is set, and then
accesses `font-lock-keywords' - that gives the error above.

Sorry that I missed the backtrace in the original mail.

Greetings,
        -- Jorgen

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