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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Colors in c/c++/Ada mode emacs
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 20:25:03 +0200
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On Sun, 10 Mar 1996, 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.

There are two packages that support this: hilit19.el and font-lock.el, 
both in the lisp/ directory.  Read the comments at the beginning of each 
one of them which will tell you how to install them.  Personally, I 
prefer font-lock, but try both to see what's best for you.