XEmacs octave mode (font lock problem)
Hello. Lately I've had a problem with editing octave files with
XEmacs. I'm using Debian woody, and this may be an issue with the
distribution or with XEmacs. So I'm posting this to the octave help
and debian user lists, in case someone has a clue.
When I open a file, XEmacs loads octave mode. However, when I try
to edit it (for instance, I add a space in a line such as 'if fig==8,',
XEmacs complains:
(warning/warning) Error caught in font-lock-pre-idle-hook': (error No such
face font-lock-builtin-face)
Now, searching in the Internet I found discussions about this issue,
but they're very old. In fact, I got this same warning when I used
Debian potato. Last year I switched to woody, and I was glad to see
it disappear, so I understood the patch was available in the woody
distribution. However, now I installed a new machine, installed the same
XEmacs/octave packages I had before, and the problem is here again!
In case it helps, I use xemacs 21 (mule version, not-gnome version), and
the octave 2.0.16.92-7 package. Octave mode works better with emacs 21,
but I still prefer what I used to have a few months ago with xemacs.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance,
Victor
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