From: Ichimusai <ichi@ichimusai.org>
Subject: Re: Red comments in .emacs & .gnus
Date: 08 Sep 2002 21:01:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m365xg71cb.fsf@h33n3fls31o965.telia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87elc4iaiz.fsf@smtp.blueyonder.co.uk>
Keith O'Connell <keith_oconnell@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
> Based on a conversation in this group I decided to day to have a
> seperate .emacs and .gnus file and to stop using the customiser option
> in emacs and instead learn what I was doing
>
> It is a very little thing, but why is it when I open .emacs all my
> comments that are prefixed with ";" are in red whereas there is no
> colour change in .gnus. The red is a helpful tool for seeing what I am
> doing, so I would like to know why it is not on, and how to turn it
> on.
It is on because emacs recongnize the .emacs file to be a file that
contains elisp so it enters the apropriate modes. It does not
recognize the .gnus the same way, but you can easily turn it on
yourself by issuing M-x lisp-mode RET.
Hope that helps!
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