If font-lock is disabled, font-lock-compile-keywords complains. Really what we want to do is to replace log-edit's font-lock definitions with our own, so define a major mode deriving from log-edit and set up font-lock-defaults there. We then use the optional MODE argument to log-edit to set up the major mode of the commit buffer appropriately. Signed-Off-By: Lawrence Mitchell <wence@xxxxxx> --- I sent this before, in response to Johnathan's message of 4th Feb (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/36088/focus=166038), but it's possible it got lost in the noise. So here it is again. The originally proposed patch from Debian is to use font-lock-add-keywords rather than font-lock-compile-keywords. However, it doesn't exist in XEmacs, if one is looking to maintain compatibility, I believe this patch is the right thing to do. contrib/emacs/git.el | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/emacs/git.el b/contrib/emacs/git.el index 214930a..65c95d9 100644 --- a/contrib/emacs/git.el +++ b/contrib/emacs/git.el @@ -1310,6 +1310,13 @@ The FILES list must be sorted." (when sign-off (git-append-sign-off committer-name committer-email))) buffer)) +(define-derived-mode git-log-edit-mode log-edit-mode "Git-Log-Edit" + "Major mode for editing git log messages. + +Set up git-specific `font-lock-keywords' for `log-edit-mode'." + (set (make-local-variable 'font-lock-defaults) + '(git-log-edit-font-lock-keywords t t))) + (defun git-commit-file () "Commit the marked file(s), asking for a commit message." (interactive) @@ -1335,9 +1342,9 @@ The FILES list must be sorted." (git-setup-log-buffer buffer (git-get-merge-heads) author-name author-email subject date)) (if (boundp 'log-edit-diff-function) (log-edit 'git-do-commit nil '((log-edit-listfun . git-log-edit-files) - (log-edit-diff-function . git-log-edit-diff)) buffer) - (log-edit 'git-do-commit nil 'git-log-edit-files buffer)) - (setq font-lock-keywords (font-lock-compile-keywords git-log-edit-font-lock-keywords)) + (log-edit-diff-function . git-log-edit-diff)) buffer 'git-log-edit-mode) + (log-edit 'git-do-commit nil 'git-log-edit-files buffer + 'git-log-edit-mode)) (setq paragraph-separate (concat (regexp-quote git-log-msg-separator) "$\\|Author: \\|Date: \\|Merge: \\|Signed-off-by: \\|\f\\|[ ]*$")) (setq buffer-file-coding-system coding-system) (re-search-forward (regexp-quote (concat git-log-msg-separator "\n")) nil t)))) -- 1.7.4.rc2.18.gb20e9 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html