Re: cannot activate font-lock-mode

[martin rudalics]

> I had this in my local variables section:
>
>  mode: font-lock
>  font-lock-keywords: ("^\\S-.*:$")
>
> which worked in Emacs 21, but does not work any more in Emacs 22.

It's a regression though personally I'd avoid placing font-lock
directives in the local variables section and would never permit Emacs
hacking them.  It would not be overly difficult to put something like a
locally-hacked property on `font-lock-keywords' and have font-lock obey
that rather than evaluating `font-lock-defaults' but I'm afraid we've
missed this opportunity.

> I solved the problem by writing instead:
>
>  mode: font-lock
>  font-lock-defaults: (("^\\S-.*:$"))
>
> I don't know whether this should be mentioned in the NEWS.

It should be mentioned.  Maybe Stefan can enumerate the directives that
can't be set any more.