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24.3.50; turn-on-font-lock doesn't turn it on

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 'Katsumi Yamaoka' <yamaoka <at> jpl.org>, 13816 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 'Stefan Monnier' <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#13816: 24.3.50; turn-on-font-lock doesn't turn it on
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:45:48 +0400

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

>> > Recently turn-on-font-lock set to some hook turns font-lock
>> > on but turns it off immediately regardless of the value of
>> > global-font-lock-mode.  Here's a recipe:
>> 
>> > emacs -Q
>> > Eval: (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
>> > and visit some .el file.
>> 
>> Works fine on the trunk right now.  Can you confirm it was 
>> fixed if you try a recent enough build?
>
> The recent font-lock breakage is still there - it still does not work as of this
> trunk build, today:
>
> In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2013-02-25 on ODIEONE
> Bzr revision: 111879 yamaoka <at> jpl.org-20130225224731-cv9gznq5nqf3ei7g
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> Configured using:
>  `configure --with-gcc (4.7) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags
>  -IC:/Devel/emacs/build/include --ldflags -LC:/Devel/emacs/build/lib'
>
> In particular, see bug #13767 (no `&optional' highlighting) and bug #13755 (see
> screenshots).
>
> However, bug #13751 seems to be fixed, at first sight, at least.

I also experienced font-lock-mode not turning on, and it was caused by
whitespace-mode. That part has been fixed in revision 111881.

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