From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1070 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ichimusai Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Red comments in .emacs & .gnus Date: 08 Sep 2002 21:01:08 +0200 Organization: Lutefisk & Pickled Herring Inc. Message-ID: References: <87elc4iaiz.fsf@smtp.blueyonder.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667899 9630 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:38:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:38:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:35 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!news.teledanmark.no!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!uni-erlangen.de!newsfeed1.telenordia.se!algonet!news2.tninet.se!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Sender: krikkit@algonet.invalid Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: wilhelmina.algonet.se Original-X-Trace: green.tninet.se 1031511717 2503 194.213.75.170 (8 Sep 2002 19:01:57 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@telenordia.se Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 19:01:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Home-Page: http://www.ichimusai.org/ X-PGP: Key ID: 1024D/930B07E8, Valid to: 2003-07-05, Fingerprint: D42D B550 2D76 4FE9 5E2D 3B99 2FD7 69DF 930B 07E8, Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1210 Original-Lines: 24 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1210 Tue Jan 17 17:28:35 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1070 Archived-At: Keith O'Connell 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! -- // AA#769 ICQ: 1645566 http://www.ichimusai.org/ \X/ ASCII ribbon campaign - No HTML, RTF or MS Word in mail "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold..." -- Hunter S. Tolkien - "Fear and Loathing in Barad-dûr"