Re: Red comments in .emacs & .gnus

Re: Red comments in .emacs & .gnus

[Ichimusai]

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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