Emacs 24.1 and colours

Emacs 24.1 and colours

[Simon Wright]

I just installed Emacs 24.1 on Mac OS X Lion, and found that my Ada code
seemed to have been eaten away. For example, if the code said
   "with Foo;"
it would appear as
   "with    ;"

This is to do with colouring in font-lock-mode.

I posted a note about a workround at
http://forward-in-code.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/where-did-my-constants-go.html.

As to the reason .. another day, perhaps!

Re: Emacs 24.1 and colours

[Stephen Leake]

Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> I just installed Emacs 24.1 on Mac OS X Lion, and found that my Ada code
> seemed to have been eaten away. For example, if the code said
>    "with Foo;"
> it would appear as
>    "with    ;"

This doesn't happen for me on Windows 7 (just upgraded today :).

> This is to do with colouring in font-lock-mode.
>
> I posted a note about a workround at
> http://forward-in-code.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/where-did-my-constants-go.html.

that says the problem is font-lock-constant-face, which is set to "dark
cyan" by default.

On my system, font-lock-constant-face is set to 'font-lock-constant-face,
which is confusing :). Using Options | Customize Emacs | Specific Face
..., I can see it is set to "CadetBlue".

I don't know why that would be different on a different OS.

-- 
-- Stephe

Re: Emacs 24.1 and colours

[Simon Wright]

Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
>
>> I just installed Emacs 24.1 on Mac OS X Lion, and found that my Ada code
>> seemed to have been eaten away. For example, if the code said
>>    "with Foo;"
>> it would appear as
>>    "with    ;"
>
> This doesn't happen for me on Windows 7 (just upgraded today :).
>
>> This is to do with colouring in font-lock-mode.
>>
>> I posted a note about a workround at
>> http://forward-in-code.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/where-did-my-constants-go.html.
>
> that says the problem is font-lock-constant-face, which is set to "dark
> cyan" by default.
>
> On my system, font-lock-constant-face is set to 'font-lock-constant-face,
> which is confusing :). Using Options | Customize Emacs | Specific Face
> ..., I can see it is set to "CadetBlue".
>
> I don't know why that would be different on a different OS.

Nor do I.

Did you see the note I added to that blog entry?

"Of course, I could have checked on Google: the problem appears to be
caused by an old version of Emacs (from 2005) leaving droppings[1].

"Remove ~/Library/Colors/Emacs.clr, restart Emacs, and all is well.

"[1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.macintosh.osx/6639"