Re: Enabling global-font-lock-mode

[Florian Lindner]

John McCabe wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:39:29 +0200, Florian Lindner
> <Florian.Lindner@xgm.de> wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>I want to enable Syntax Highlightning (Global font lock mode)
>>Using this expression in my .emacs file is evaluated without errors but
>>don't take effect. What's wrong?
>>
>>'(global-font-lock-mode t nil (font-lock))
> 
> What version of Emacs are you using? If anything after 20.0, use the
> "Customize" features to do it rather than edit your .emacs.
> 
> It may be under the "Help" menu, or the "Options" menu. Find the
> "Customize" menu, then "Specific Option" and enter
> global-font-lock-mode when asked.

I prefer to edit the .emacs directly, it's a greater learn effect and I 
don't like to use things that I don't understand.
Florian