[plug] global-font-lock-mode not activating colourisation when executed from .emacs

[Cameron Patrick]

David Buddrige wrote:

> However, being a lazy sort, I really would prefer it if emacs would 
> activate this feature for me, rather than my having to type it every time I 
> load my perl source code, so I edited my .emacs file, and added the line: 
> 
> (setq global-font-lock-mode t) 

That's not the why my .emacs has it; I have a snippet that looks like:

(custom-set-variables
  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 '(c-basic-offset 8)
[...snip...]
 '(global-font-lock-mode t nil (font-lock))
[...snip...]
 '(user-mail-address "cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au"))

I believe that I enabled it using M-x customize and drilling down
through the utterly counterintuitive menu system.

Cameron.