- Comments are displayed in `font-lock-comment-face';
- Strings are displayed in `font-lock-string-face';
- - Certain other expressions are displayed in other faces according to the
- value of the variable `font-lock-keywords'.
+ - Certain other expressions are displayed in other faces
+ according to the value of the variable `font-lock-keywords'.
To customize the faces (colors, fonts, etc.) used by Font Lock for
fontifying different parts of buffer text, use \\[customize-face].
-You can enable Font Lock mode in any major mode automatically by turning on in
-the major mode's hook. For example, put in your ~/.emacs:
+You can enable Font Lock mode in any major mode automatically by
+turning on in the major mode's hook. For example, put in your
+~/.emacs:
(add-hook \\='c-mode-hook \\='turn-on-font-lock)
-Alternatively, you can use Global Font Lock mode to automagically turn on Font
-Lock mode in buffers whose major mode supports it and whose major mode is one
-of `font-lock-global-modes'. For example, put in your ~/.emacs:
+Alternatively, you can use Global Font Lock mode to automagically
+turn on Font Lock mode in buffers whose major mode supports it
+and whose major mode is one of `font-lock-global-modes'. For
+example, put in your ~/.emacs:
(global-font-lock-mode t)
-Where major modes support different levels of fontification, you can use
-the variable `font-lock-maximum-decoration' to specify which level you
-generally prefer. When you turn Font Lock mode on/off the buffer is
-fontified/defontified, though fontification occurs only if the buffer is
-less than `font-lock-maximum-size'.
+Where major modes support different levels of fontification, you
+can use the variable `font-lock-maximum-decoration' to specify
+which level you generally prefer. When you turn Font Lock mode
+on/off the buffer is fontified/defontified, though fontification
+occurs only if the buffer is less than `font-lock-maximum-size'.
-To add your own highlighting for some major mode, and modify the highlighting
-selected automatically via the variable `font-lock-maximum-decoration', you can
-use `font-lock-add-keywords'.
+To add your own highlighting for some major mode, and modify the
+highlighting selected automatically via the variable
+`font-lock-maximum-decoration', you can use
+`font-lock-add-keywords'.
-To fontify a buffer, without turning on Font Lock mode and regardless of buffer
-size, you can use \\[font-lock-fontify-buffer].
+To fontify a buffer, without turning on Font Lock mode and
+regardless of buffer size, you can use \\[font-lock-fontify-buffer].
-To fontify a block (the function or paragraph containing point, or a number of
-lines around point), perhaps because modification on the current line caused
-syntactic change on other lines, you can use \\[font-lock-fontify-block].
+To fontify a block (the function or paragraph containing point,
+or a number of lines around point), perhaps because modification
+on the current line caused syntactic change on other lines, you
+can use \\[font-lock-fontify-block].
You can set your own default settings for some mode, by setting a
buffer local value for `font-lock-defaults', via its mode hook.
-The above is the default behavior of `font-lock-mode'; you may specify
-your own function which is called when `font-lock-mode' is toggled via
-`font-lock-function'. "
+The above is the default behavior of `font-lock-mode'; you may
+specify your own function which is called when `font-lock-mode'
+is toggled via `font-lock-function'. "
nil nil nil
:after-hook (font-lock-initial-fontify)
;; Don't turn on Font Lock mode if we don't have a display (we're running a