Re: message mode loses highlighting

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> In <4nznjmyvdo.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu>
>>>>>	Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:

> I have

> (global-font-lock-mode t)

> in my .emacs, and it affects message-mode as well I think.

Oops, I forgot it completely since I am using XEmacs usually.
In addition, I made two mistakes.  One is I am using Develock[1],
the other is I forgot there is the font-lock-set-defaults buffer
local variable which indicates whether font-lock-keywords have
already been set.  You can make your message buffer look like
fruit parfait again using the following hook:

(add-hook 'message-mode-hook
	  (lambda nil
	    (setq font-lock-set-defaults nil)
	    (font-lock-mode 1)))
or

(add-hook 'message-mode-hook
	  (lambda nil
	    (font-lock-mode -1)
	    (font-lock-mode 1)))

(Otherwise, you can use Develock instead ;-)

Therefore, we may have to turn off font-lock in the message-mode
function as follows:

--- message.el~	2003-07-08 00:55:55 +0000
+++ message.el	2003-07-11 06:49:10 +0000
@@ -2345,6 +2345,8 @@
 	   "<#!*/?\\(multipart\\|part\\|external\\|mml\\|secure\\)"))
   ;; Allow using comment commands to add/remove quoting.
   (set (make-local-variable 'comment-start) message-yank-prefix)
+  (when (featurep 'font-lock)
+    (font-lock-mode -1))
   (if (featurep 'xemacs)
       (message-setup-toolbar)
     (set (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults)

>> P.S.
>> Sorry for my funny English.  I am a sophisticated writer in
>> Japanese, but not in English. ;-)

> No problem, I appreciate your help greatly.  I don't know if I'll get
> the characters right, since I don't speak Japanese, but here's a try:
> どうもarigataう :)

Great!  But please say a-ri-ga-to-u, not a-ri-ga-ta-u.

> I couldn't figure out a way to input "ari" or "gata" with the
> japanese-hiragana input method.

どうもありがとう :)
-- 
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
[1] ftp://ftp.jpl.org/pub/elisp/develock.el.gz