Re: Font Lock Problems

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

  >> Okay, thats fair enough. I've never done anything with the syntax
  >> table before, but I shall investigate.

  Stefan> Check out SampleMode in the emacswiki where it has an
  Stefan> example.

Okay. 

  >>>> This works fine an does what I expect (that is for each line
  >>>> highlights ">>>>" in one colour, all the text before it in
  >>>> another, and all the text after it in another). But its does it
  >>>> very lazily. In fact I have to call "font-lock-fontify-buffer"
  >>>> to get it to do any fontification at all.

  Stefan> Have you turned font-lock-mode ON ?
  >> I presume so.

  Stefan> Well, what is the value of `font-lock-mode' ?

It's nil. This worried me, but I checked the value in other buffers
which appear to be font locked and it was likewise null there. 


  >> I am using global-font-lock-mode. Do I have to add something to
  >> my mode to provide support for font-lock? I'm currently defining
  >> my mode as a derived mode from text-mode.

  Stefan> Don't use `font-lock-add-keywords' when defining a major
  Stefan> mode.  See SampleMode for an example.

Yes, this looks good. I shall work with this. 

Thanks Stefan

Phil