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

[Russell Steicke]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 05:49:35PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> 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.

Or just this:

  (global-font-lock-mode 1)

Your problem is that global-font-mode has both a function binding and
a variable binding.  The code that does font locking seems to set the
global-font-lock-mode variable, but not read it.  So you need to call
the function to turn on fonts.

You can get the documentation for the global-font-lock-mode function
with

  C-h f global-font-lock-mode RET

And for the global-font-lock-mode variable with

  C-h v global-font-lock-mode RET




-- 
Russell Steicke

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