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Should modeline look like this? and other oddities
From: |
Kalyan K. Mukherjea |
Subject: |
Should modeline look like this? and other oddities |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:21:22 +0530 (IST) |
Hello everyone,
I recently got myself the Emacs-21.1 distribution from gnu.org and
compiled it on a Red Hat 7.2 machine. Emacs-20.7 was already installed.
After a few attempts to uninstall this (rpm -e emacs-20.7) and being told
that emacs-20.7 was not installed (it had been installed with the RH
distribution rather than from an rpm source) I just went ahead and
compiled Emacs-21.1 with leim-21.1. There are some oddities I am noticing,
mainly to do with font-lock highlighting of LaTeX files. These probably
arise from obsolete code: I have gotten the latest versions from Peter
Galbraith. But while looking around for what was wrong I discovered a
strange phenomenon:
My modeline looks like this:
"buffer name" "time" "Mail" (Major mode) "line-no." "column no." "All"
the last is, of course, dependent on the size of the buffer contents.
Does this mean I am perenially in Mail mode? I ask because in a LaTeX file
if I put the cursor in the middle of a math mode expression, say
"$\log f(x)$" (the point is at the 'o' of log and do
M-x list-text-properties-at I usually get "none" in the echo area. But if
I have visited a customize-face buffer earlier in the session then I get
the correct "font-latex-math-face".
What is going on? Sorry for the long-winded posting.
TIA.
Kalyan
PS: I am working under X.
- Should modeline look like this? and other oddities,
Kalyan K. Mukherjea <=