[ESS] SAS mode font-lock-mode problem

[A.J. Rossini]

I believe that was conditioned for when XEmacs was the only terminal
font-locking emacs (which isn't true anymore (at least 2+, maybe many
more years?), now that Emacs can do it as well).

On 2/4/06, Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear Scott,
>
>  > I have been using ESS off and on for several years, orignally with
>  > Xemacs and more recently with GNU Emacs ... but always in X.
>  >
>  > Now, i am using Emacs via PuTTY from Windows :(
>  >
>  > When I open a SAS file, I get this this Lisp error:
>  > wrong-type-argument symbolp ""
>  >
>  > If  I try to open the file a second time, it opens, but font-locking
>  > isn't enabled. Any idea how to handle this?
>
> Including the backtrace made debugging this fairly easy, thanks!  It
> looks like you have font lock turned on all in all buffers.  I can
> replicate your problem on an xterm in unix by "emacs -nw"
> and then visiting  baseball.sas and trying M-x
> font-lock-fontify-buffer.
>
> The problem is that for non-windowed systems (such as your putty
> connection and emacs -nw), window-system is nil and so essl-sas.el has:
>
>   (defvar SAS-mode-font-lock-keywords "") ;; empty if not window-system
>
> A temporary fix might be to change "" above to nil.  But this
> conditioning upon window-system might need closer inspection, since
> Emacs 21.3 can do font locking within an xterm.
>
> Rodney: does the value of SAS-mode-font-lock-keywords need to be
> conditioned upon window-system?
>
> Stephen
>
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