Re: font-lock-comment-face not working in latest CVS

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> I downloaded the latest CVS sources and built emacs 21 for Mac OS
>>> X. When I loaded emacs, it started complaining because I had the line:

Please M-x report-emacs-bug so it goes to the proper place.

> Hmmm... the calls to set-face-foreground were made after a call to
> (global-font-lock-mode t) (which is where I believe font-lock-comment-face
> gets set).  What's more, this .emacs works in 21.3 (on my GNU/Linux
> machine).  It's only after building emacs from CVS to run on Mac OS X did
> the complaining start (version from CVS says 21.3.50.1).

The problem is that in Emacs-CVS, calling global-font-lock-mode does not
load font-lock.el any more.  That could be considered as a bug in
Emacs-CVS indeed.


        Stefan