It's really strange. I have to enable the syntax highlighting by "M-x font-lock-mode" every time I open my emacs. I can't enable it in .emacs. It should be a conflict with other el files. <div class="gmail_quote"> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:21 PM, yueyu lin <<a href="mailto:popeyelin@gmail.com">popeyelin@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> When I finish the fresh new installing of Ubuntu 8.04, my emacs including emacs 22 and emacs snapshot lost the highlighting syntaxes ability. While the xemacs's highlighting still works well. My home directory is reserved so all of my other emacs plugins are still there. I mainly use the XRef and have a lot of c projects. The XRef is still there but I feel very uncomfortable without the syntax highlighting. Does anyone meet the same problem and how to solve it? Thanks in advance. -- -- Yueyu Lin </blockquote></div> -- -- Yueyu Lin