From: Josh Huber <huber+rt@...>
Date: 2004-03-14T15:00:04+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-mode.el - font lock not working?

Jim Menard <jimm@io.com> writes:

> That happens to me too, and not just in Ruby mode. I have to add a
> call to font-lock-mode to the mode hook. Here's my ruby-mode-hook:
>
> (setq ruby-mode-hook
>       '(lambda ()
>          (setq ruby-indent-level 4)
>          ; (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)  ; Per advice on c.l.r
>          (font-lock-mode 1)
>          ))

This doesn't help. (in fact, I already tried it...)
global-font-lock-mode is enabled, and font-lock mode is enabled in
the ruby buffer.  This appears to be some oddity specific to
ruby-mode, unfortunately.  It's pretty confusing :P

-- 
Josh Huber