Re: Two questions

[Frank Winkler @home]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:42:06 +0200, Peter Weiss, wrote:

 >> my attempts to customize them. But I didn't find the code which
 >> recognizes the commands and sets the colors; is this hard-coded?
 >
 >Nope, like allways in Emacs: You can modify nearly everything to fit your
 >needs. Check the info docs for "font-lock".  Font-lock-mode is activated 
 >for example globally with
 >
 >    (global-font-lock-mode 1)

Ok, "font-lock-mode" seems to be a good trace. If I enable this mode, my 
Perl program gets fontified. But I still don't understand why and how. The 
word "perl" doesn't appear in font-lock.el.
So where exactly is the keyword-color mapping defined? Why is this not 
coupled to perl-mode.el?

After some more fiddling: hilit19.el seems to be the interesting point.

TIA

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