Re: message mode loses highlighting

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> 
>> Sorry if I didn't make it clear, but I understand that part, my
>> question is why would the tzz-highlighting-install function turn
>> off ALL syntax highlighting in the message buffer?  It doesn't do
>> that in an Emacs Lisp buffer, for instance.
> 
> I faintly remember having a similar trouble with message mode and
> highlight a long time ago.  It went on for quite a while.  I posted
> about it but couldn't get it resolved.  
> 
> I can't remember for sure what the fix was but I think it was
> something simple like having two calls to fontlock in text mode from
> old pieces of init files still lurking about in emacs or
> site-start.el
> 
> Might have been two similar or identical hooks to fontlock in text
> mode.
> 
> Do you have a text mode hook somewhere calling fontlock?

What I posted is the only customization involving fontlock I have.  In
any case, add-keywords should not override any other font locking,
according to the docs, that's why I'm puzzled.

I guess I can look at the message mode source.  I'm just so busy right
now that I will probably get to it next year :)

Ted