On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 01:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> Today I was trying to use Emacs for the first time. I was writing a C
> program. From my Vim experience, I thought the code will be color
> highlighted automatically. But that was not to be. Searching through the
> docs I found that I need to put the following line in my .emacs file:
> -------------------
> (global-font-lock-mode t)
> (setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t)
> -------------------
> Did that, but still nothing happens.
> 
> Please tell me what more need to be done.

How are you starting emacs?  Within a console?  From X?  Or emacs -nw in
an xterm?

Get one or more .emacsen from http://www.dotfiles.com and enjoy.

        srs




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