Re: font-locking in conf-mode

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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.

For what it's worth, I've changed it to not use that obsolete var any more.
Tell me if it helps,


        Stefan