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23.1; hi-lock-file-patterns-policy argument |
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Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:01:41 +0100 |
According to the emacs manual, if the variable hi-lock-file-patterns-policy
is set to t, Hi-Lock mode should automatically extract and highlight
patterns found in a file when it is visited. This does not work.
Starting with emacs -Q, I execute in the *scratch* buffer
(setq hi-lock-file-patterns-policy t)
and open some file containing the two lines
;; -*- mode: hi-lock -*-
;; Hi-lock: (("mode" . 'hi-blue-b))
The pattern is not highlighted. If I execute instead,
(setq hi-lock-file-patterns-policy (lambda (pattern) t))
then it works as expected. The word "mode" is highlighted.
The bug also exists in emacs 22.
In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.2)
of 2009-11-02 on raven, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10605000
configured using `configure '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu'
'--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib'
'--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes'
'--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim'
'--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars'
'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g
-O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''
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Re: bug#5335: 23.1; hi-lock-file-patterns-policy argument |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:33:27 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Thanks, I corrected the manual.
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