Re: No highlighting in the .emacs file

[Stefan Monnier]

> I have just installed emacs through synaptic on Kubuntu 7.10. When I open
> and edit my .emacs fil there are no colors or highlighting. When I last used
> emacs both my .emacs file and my C files (.c) was automatically
> highlighted. Is there some module I need to install?

In Emacs-21, highlighting (called "font-lock") was not enabled
by default.  Since Emacs-22.1, it is.

So either you're using Emacs-21, or you have something like

  (global-font-lock-mode)

in your .emacs which ends up turning off the highlighting.


        Stefan