Re: Problem with original Emacs LaTeX font lock scheme

* August Karlstrom (2005-03-08) writes:

> On tis, 2005-03-08 at 18:55 +0100, Ralf Angeli wrote:
>> Hm, this is working fine here with Emacs 21.3.
>> 
>> Do you get the same error if you start Emacs with
>> 
>> emacs -q -no-site-file
>> 
>> (don't specify a file on the command line), copy the following lines
>> into the *scratch* buffer,
>> 
>> (require 'tex-site)
>> (setq TeX-install-font-lock 'tex-font-setup)
>> (global-font-lock-mode 1)
>> 
>> type `M-x eval-buffer RET' and then load the LaTeX file?
>
> Unfortunately I get the same result even when I follow your
> instructions.

I'm terribly sorry, but then I am at my wits' end.  I don't know what
causes the problem for you.  Can somebody else on the list reproduce
this?  Is your Emacs patched somehow?

> In the buffer LaTeX commands are sometimes temporarily
> fontified (in a kind of unpredictable way) when it's being modified. For
> instance, if i delete the `n' in `\begin{document}' then `\begi' gets
> fontified (in `font-lock-keyword-face'), but if I then run `font-lock-
> fontify-buffer' the fontification is cleared. Comments and inline math
> is correctly fontified.

Comments and inline math are highlighted by using the syntax of their
start and end tags (" and $).  Most of the other stuff is highlighted
by using regular expressions.  It seems that the syntax-based
highlighting can still be done even if the regexp-based highlighting
fails.

-- 
Ralf