Re: [vile] nohl inside define-mode

[lists-vile]

Actually I just noticed a case where the C buffer DID highlight again. After
switching back to the C buffer I made a change to the buffer, eventually it
was colorized again, I'm assuming after the autocolor timer expired.

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 04:52:52PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 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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