font-locking in conf-mode

[Roland Winkler]

Symptoms:

I get rather strange results from font-lock when visiting my
~/.Xdefaults file. The only things that are highlighted are comments
starting with `!' and conditionals like `#if WIDTH==1600'. But not
even the matching `#endif' is recognized.
conf-xdefaults-mode says that assignments should be highlighted,
too.

The problem occurs with `emacs --no-init-file' iff you first evaluate

(global-font-lock-mode 1)

The only thing I could figure out is that conf-mode uses the
obsolete variable font-lock-defaults-alist. But I do not know
whether this is causing the problem.

Roland


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2005-08-25 on tfkp07
configured using `configure '--prefix=/nfs/tfkp07/winkler/emacs/NEW' 
'--with-gcc' '--with-pop' '--with-x' '--with-x-toolkit=athena' 
'--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib' '--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/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: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil