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In article <1993Mar8.170528.18034@cs.hw.ac.uk>, donaldh@cs.hw.ac.uk (Donald I Hunter) writes:
>I'm having a bit of trouble getting comments to highlight in c-mode under
>Lucid Emacs 19.4. Everything else works fine, comments are highlighted 
>in lisp etc. I had a dig around in the lightbrite syntax-decode and c-mode
>lisp code, but I'm not too well versed in lisp and couldn't see a solution.
>
>I tried setting syndecode-comment-start-regexp's value to "/*" and "*/"
>for end-regexp  explicitly in a c-mode-hook. But once in c-mode, the value
>of both these variables is nil.
>
>Beyond that, I don't have any idea about the workings of syntax tables so
>I'm stuck.
>
>Any help would be appreciated, since what I would like highlighted more than
>anything else is comments.
>
>Donald.

What you need is the syntax table in your c-mode to have this:
(modify-syntax-entry ?/ ". 14" c-mode-syntax-table)
(modify-syntax-entry ?* ". 23" c-mode-syntax-table)

--Espen Skoglund
--espensk@stud.cs.uit.no


> Donald I Hunter                         donaldh@uk.ac.hw.cs 
>
> The human race will rescue me in 3 and a half million years
>   In the meantime, don't try and understand what I say