Re: Fontification Problems with alltt

Jan T. Kim <[email protected]> writes:

> Ralf Angeli <angeli <at> iwi.uni-sb.de> writes:
>
>> 
>> * Jan T. Kim (2005-03-06) writes:
>> 
>> > while writing a LaTeX file with frequently interspersed code
>> > fragments typeset in the alltt environment, I experience that
>> > AucTeX has a tendency to somehow get confused about whether it's
>> > "inside" or "outside" an alltt environment. The visual effect of
>> > this is that everything is fontified as though it was in alltt,
>> > except the portions inside an alltt environment.
>> >
>> > Switching font-lock-mode off and on again fixes the problem, but
>> > it eventually returns.
>> [...]
>> > This happens on emacs-21.3-12, running on a Fedora core 2 installation,
>> > but I've also seen it on my notebook which is a recently installed
>> > Debian system.
>> >
>> > Is this a known problem, is there anything that can be done about this?
>> 
>> There was a similar report a few days ago.  It is likely Emacs not
>> updating the font locking correctly.  Do you still see the problem
>> with a development version of Emacs?
>
> I've just installed emacs-21.4a, dated 17-Feb-2005 on
> http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/ , hope that's sufficiently "bleeding
> edge"...

It isn't.  Apart from two fixes(?), it is the same as 21.3, and that
is just bugfixes over 21.1.  No bleeding edge at all.

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