Re: font-locking in conf-mode

[Roland Winkler]

On Tue Oct 18 2005 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > 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,

A quick test doesn't change anything for me  :-(

Roland