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From: Mike Young <mikey AT mcs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Colors in c/c++/Ada mode emacs
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 01:39:29 -0600
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Michael E. Wesolowski wrote:
> 
> I believe I've seen it mentioned here that the emacs language modes can
> provide some colors to highlight various structures. Am I misremembering
> this? I have the DOS version of emacs 19.30 and no colors appear - is
> there something I have to do to turn this on, or is it supposed to appear
> on its own (implying that my distribution is deficient)? I quick scan
> (too quick?) of the FAQ didn't seem to contain any pointers.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

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You might try the emacs news group for more help.

Ada-mode works for my NTEmacs 19.30, although it has the endearing habit 
of crashing in Win95 at periodic intervals. Try M-x font-lock-mode to 
turn on syntax highlighting, and M-x auto-fill-mode to enable word 
wrapping for comments. The following lines in my .emacs file does this 
for all Ada files:

  (add-hook 'ada-mode-hook '(lambda () (font-lock-mode 1)))
  (add-hook 'ada-mode-hook '(lambda () (auto-fill-mode 1)))

Mike.