Hi Jack, thanks for the answer.
Am 08.02.2018 um 13:44 schrieb Jack Henahan: > Could you post your config? I shy back from that because the config -- a strongly modified version of the configuration pubished at http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html -- is quite lengthy. > I expect the issue is that you don’t (require 'org) or set up the > auto-mode-alist in your init file. This would also be the case if, for > instance, you defer loading the package with use-package, as well. Invoking > the agenda will load org, so the next org file you open will do what you > expect. The config starts with (require 'org) immediately after adjusting some paths so the git-version of org is found. Some lines below there's (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(org\\|org_archive\\|txt\\)$" . org-mode)) > Do org files open in Fundamental mode when you don’t invoke the agenda first? How would I find out? Emacs adds the org-specific menu entries upon opening that file, and shows org as major mode in the status line. At least some of the org shortcuts (like adding a timestamp, or the basic outlining key-codes) are active. I just sorely miss the highlighting :-( Thanks for any hints, Julius > On Feb 8, 2018, at 03:42, Julius Dittmar <julius.ditt...@gmx.de> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm an emacs-newbe, so please bear with me. I must be doing something >> wrong and I have no idea where to look. >> >> If my emacs-starting sequence is >> >> 1. call emacs with no arguments (and a config file adding various >> org-mode settings) >> 2. launch org-mode agenda once >> 3. open a file with .org suffix >> >> then highlighting and keybindings for that file are as I expect them and >> in sync with the org-mode settings in the config file. >> >> If I omit step 2, then highlighting in the file does not work. >> >> Even if I then call agenda and later, either by choosing an agenda item >> or directly, go back to that file buffer, highlighting still does not >> work there. >> >> Any pointers as to what might cause such behaviour? Or perhaps a faster >> work-around than generating the whole (over-full) agenda? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Julius >> >> PS: GNU Emacs 24.3.1, org-mode release_9.1.6-159-g8554aa9