Re: global font-lock?

-- John Paul Wallington <jpw(a)shootybangbang.com&gt; spake thusly: This is a GNU Emacs thing. The XEmacs equivalent seems to be font-lock-auto-fontify, which by default is t. It's also necessary, however, that Emacs know the major mode of the buffer and that said major mode supports font-lock. This also apparently only happens automatically for files. From the bottom of font-lock.el: ;; Install ourselves: (add-hook 'find-file-hooks 'font-lock-set-defaults t) Presumably it's up to other modes to enable font-lock themselves. Or you could add to your .emacs: (add-hook 'ielm-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) but that only solves the individual case. I don't know of a way to get this to happen for all modes that support font-lock. I couldn't find a hook that's run after setting a major mode. There's change-major-mode-hook, but this seems to get run _before_, which wouldn't help.