Re: font-locked Gnus browse server

[Emanuel Berg]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

>> Here is a dump [1] of how it could look, and the
>> Elisp [2] that makes it look that way easily
>> enough. Doesn't it look nice and, uhm, colorful?
>> It seems even tho `font-lock-mode' is on, you still
>> have to call `font-lock-fontify-buffer' to get
>> the action.
>
> I think it would be there immediately if you call
> `font-lock-add-keywords' with nil in place of
> 'gnus-browse-mode.

>From (describe-function 'font-lock-add-keywords)

    MODE should be a symbol, the major mode command
    name, such as `c-mode' or nil. If nil,
    highlighting keywords are added for the
    current buffer.

>> I put it in `gnus-browse-mode-hook' but
>> I don't think you should have to (?).
>
> Or you can put your current `font-lock-add-keywords'
> call into your ~/.gnus. Then it would be evaluated
> before gnus-browse-mode was activated.

It is in an init file and it is evaluated before the
mode is set. For some reason it doesn't kick in
without the explicit call to
`font-lock-fontify-buffer'. That has never been needed
elsewhere in my experience.

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