Re: [vile] nohl inside define-mode

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 11 May 2011, address@hidden wrote:

> I work with files for which I want to specify some alternate settings. Here is
> a snippet from my .vilerc file:
>
> define-mode sdlmode
> ~with define-submode sdlmode
>    suffixes '\.pr$'
>    nohl
>    ts=2
>    sw=2
> ~endwith
>
> If I open a C file vile performs syntax highlighting as expected. When
> I open a .pr later and switch back to the C file highlighting in the C file is
> disabled. I thought from the help documentation that the hl setting was local
> to the buffer if specified?

It should local - I can reproduce this.  Probably what is happening is 
that the read-hook is using the $highlight value from before the buffer 
switching action.

I hadn't noticed this particular case (and it might be fixable) but was 
aware of the case where vile's macro buffers won't automatically be 
colored until one does it manually, e.g., using ^X-q (essentially a
problem due to the order of evaluating things versus painting)

I'll investigate and see what might be done to improve things.

> I'm using 9.8e but I believe it happened with 9.7 as well.
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