My Emacs lost the ability to highlight the syntaxes in 8.04

[Florian Diesch]

"yueyu lin" <popeyelin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:21 PM, yueyu lin <popeyelin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When I finish the fresh new installing of Ubuntu 8.04, my emacs including
>> emacs 22 and emacs snapshot lost the highlighting syntaxes ability. While
>> the xemacs's highlighting still works well.
>> My home directory is reserved so all of my other emacs plugins are still
>> there.
>> I mainly use the XRef and have a lot of c projects. The XRef is still there
>> but I feel very uncomfortable without the syntax highlighting.
>> Does anyone meet the same problem and how to solve it? Thanks in advance.

Works fine here in emacs-snapshot-gtk

> It's really strange. I have to enable the syntax highlighting by "M-x
> font-lock-mode" every time I open my emacs. I can't enable it in .emacs. It
> should be a conflict with other el files.

Maybe some of your settings don't work with the new version. Look at
the *Messages* buffer if there's some error somewhere.




   Florian
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