Noah> I don't know that this is the right place to send Noah> this, but I can't find any mention of this in the FAQ on Noah> www.xemacs.org and this is the only email address I can find Noah> associated w/ the prog-modes package. Noah> I recently installed xemacs 21.1 on a Solaris system Noah> (SunOS 5.6) and am in the process of installing various Noah> packages to get it up to the functionality of the previous Noah> installation (19.x). However, I've run into the problem that Noah> despite having installed prog-modes (and mail-lib, Noah> xemacs-devel, and xemacs-base, as specified by the package Noah> index on the ftp site), xemacs still doesn't recognize my Noah> perl code as being perl (it just uses the fundamental Noah> mode). Is their something I have to turn on besides Noah> prog-modes-package? Noah, I assume you built XEmacs from sources. If so, check out (e:\export\home\tmp\21.1\xemacs\)README.packages Also have a look at Help->Samples->Sample .emacs and search for font-lock and auto-mode-alist. Try starting xemacs -vanilla and visit a perl file (.pl). For me it is displayed in cperl-mode with font-lock-mode turned on. The modeline shows (CPerl Font). If this does not work for you, try M-x cper-mode RET M-x font-lock-mode RET If this still does not work for you, send me your values for late-packages ("c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\site-packages\\" "c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\site-packages\\pgnus-0.85\\" "c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\xemacs-packages\\" "c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\xemacs-packages\\man\\") auto-mode-alist (("\\.idl\\b" . TerIDL-mode) ("\\.verilog\\'" . verilog-mode) ("\\.vlog\\'" . verilog-mode) ("\\.f\\'" . verilog-mode) ("\\.dv\\'" . verilog-mode) ("\\.v\\'" . verilog-mode) ("\\.asc$" . asc-mode) ("\\.C$" . c++-mode) ("\\.cc$" . c++-mode) ("\\.hh$" . c++-mode) ("\\.t$" . c++-mode) ("\\.c$" . c-mode) ("\\.h$" . c++-mode) ("\\.s$" . asm-mode) ("\\.n?awk$" . awk-mode) ("\\.csh$" . csh-sh-mode) ("\\.ksh$" . ksh-sh-mode) ("\\.sh$" . sh-sh-mode) ("\\.i[abcg]$" . bib-mode) ("\\.[ce]l$" . lisp-mode) ("\\.m$" . objc-mode) ("\\..*adr$" . lisp-mode) ("\\..*tdl$" . lisp-mode) ("\\.A$" . mim-mode) ("\\.[1-9]$" . nroff-mode) ("\\.p[lm]$" . perl-mode) ("\\.e?ps$" . postscript-mode) ("\\.py$" . python-mode) ("\\.sgml$" . sgml-mode) ("\\.hex" . hexl-mode) ("\\.html$" . html-mode) ("\\.tcl$" . tcl-mode) ("\\.tex$" . tex-mode) ("\\.txt$" . text-mode) ("\\.mk$" . makefile-mode) ("[Mm]akefile" . makefile-mode) ("\\.?\\(cshrc\\|login\\)\\([^\\/]+\\)?$" . csh-sh-mode) ("\\.?\\(profile\\)\\([^\\/]+\! ! \)?$" . sh-sh-mode) ("\\.C$" . c++-mode) ("\\.cc$" . c++-mode) ("\\.hh$" . c++-mode) ("\\.c$" . c-mode) ("\\.h$" . c-mode) ("\\.\\(tar\\|tgz\\|tar\\.gz\\)\\'" . tar-mode) ("\\.java\\'" . jde-mode) ("\\.te?xt\\'" . text-mode) ("\\.[chi]\\'" . c-mode) ("\\.el\\'" . emacs-lisp-mode) ("\\.\\(?:[CH]\\|cc\\|hh\\)\\'" . c++-mode) ("\\.[ch]\\(pp\\|xx\\|\\+\\+\\)\\'" . c++-mode) ("\\.java\\'" . java-mode) ("\\.idl\\'" . idl-mode) ("\\.f\\(?:or\\)?\\'" . fortran-mode) ("\\.F\\(?:OR\\)?\\'" . fortran-mode) ("\\.[fF]90\\'" . f90-mode) ("\\.\\([pP][Llm]\\|al\\)\\'" . perl-mode) ("\\.py\\'" . python-mode) ("\\.texi\\(?:nfo\\)?\\'" . texinfo-mode) ("\\.ad[abs]\\'" . ada-mode) ("\\.c?l\\(?:i?sp\\)?\\'" . lisp-mode) ("\\.p\\(?:as\\)?\\'" . pascal-mode) ("\\.ltx\\'" . latex-mode) ("\\.[sS]\\'" . asm-mode) ("[Cc]hange.?[Ll]og?\\(?:.[0-9]+\\)?\\'" . change-log-mode) ("\\$CHANGE_LOG\\$\\.TXT" . change-log-mode) ("\\.scm?\\(?:\\.[0-9]*\\)?\\'" . scheme-mode) ("\\.e\\'" . eiffel-mode) ("\\.mss\\'" .! ! scribe-mode) ("\\.m\\(?:[mes]\\|an\\)\\'" . nroff-mode) ("\\.icn\\'" . icon-mode) ("\\.\\(?:[ckz]?sh\\|shar\\)\\'" . sh-mode) ("/\\.\\(?:bash_\\|z\\)?\\(profile\\|login\\|logout\\)\\'" . sh-mode) ("/\\.\\(?:[ckz]sh\\|bash\\|tcsh\\|es\\|xinit\\|startx\\)rc\\'" . sh-mode) ("/\\.\\(?:[kz]shenv\\|xsession\\)\\'" . sh-mode) ("\\.[12345678]\\'" . nroff-mode) ("\\.[tT]e[xX]\\'" . tex-mode) ("\\.\\(?:sty\\|cls\\|bbl\\)\\'" . latex-mode) ("\\.bib\\'" . bibtex-mode) ("\\.article\\'" . text-mode) ("\\.letter\\'" . text-mode) ("\\.\\(?:tcl\\|exp\\)\\'" . tcl-mode) ("\\.wrl\\'" . vrml-mode) ("\\.awk\\'" . awk-mode) ("\\.prolog\\'" . prolog-mode) ("\\.\\(?:arc\\|zip\\|lzh\\|zoo\\)\\'" . archive-mode) ("\\`/tmp/Re" . text-mode) ("/Message[0-9]*\\'" . text-mode) ("/drafts/[0-9]+\\'" . mh-letter-mode) ("^/tmp/fol/" . text-mode) ("\\.y\\'" . c-mode) ("\\.lex\\'" . c-mode) ("\\.m\\'" . objc-mode) ("\\.oak\\'" . scheme-mode) ("\\.s?html?\\'" . html-mode) ("\\.htm?l?3\\'" . html3-mode) ("\\.\\(?:! ! sgml?\\|dtd\\)\\'" . sgml-mode) ("\\.c?ps\\'" . postscript-mode) ("[/\\][._].*emacs\\'" . emacs-lisp-mode) ("\\.m4\\'" . autoconf-mode) ("configure\\.in\\'" . autoconf-mode) ("\\.ml\\'" . lisp-mode) ("\\.ma?k\\'" . makefile-mode) ("[Mm]akefile\\(\\.\\|\\'\\)" . makefile-mode) ("\\.X\\(defaults\\|environment\\|resources\\|modmap\\)\\'" . xrdb-mode) ("/app-defaults/" . xrdb-mode) ("\\.[^/]*wm2?\\(?:rc\\)?\\'" . winmgr-mode) ("\\.\\(?:jpe?g\\|JPE?G\\|png\\|PNG\\|gif\\|GIF\\|tiff?\\|TIFF?\\)\\'" . image-mode)) Noah> In case it's of any use, this is the section of my .emacs Noah> file that xemacs is using to turn various packages on: Your .emacs does not look right. Where do all the (*-package t) come from? Regards, Adrian Noah> (custom-set-variables '(speedbar-package t) '(efs-package t) Noah> '(sh-script-package t) '(cperl-electric-parens t) Noah> '(text-modes-package t) '(prog-modes-package t) Noah> '(ediff-package t) '(vc-package t) '(textools-package t) Noah> '(strokes-package t) '(edit-utils-package t) Noah> '(texinfo-package t) '(time-package t) '(ispell-package t) Noah> '(pcl-cvs-package t) '(reftex-package t) '(c-support-package Noah> t) '(eudc-package t) '(debug-package t) '(apel-package t) Noah> '(mailcrypt-package t) '(tm-package t) Noah> '(hm--html-menus-package t) '(cc-mode-package t) Noah> '(auctex-package t) '(net-utils-package t) Noah> '(mail-lib-package t) '(xemacs-base-package t) '(cperl-hairy Noah> t) '(gnus-package t) '(font-lock-mode t nil (font-lock))) Noah> (custom-set-faces) Noah> Thanks, Noah Romer -- Adrian Aichner Teradyne GmbH, European Design Center Integra Test Division Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Strasse 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 (What is a Fax?) D-81673 MUENCHEN E-mail adrian.aichner(a)teradyne.com