Has anyone gotten VB highlighting to work in Emacs23?

Question

I have found and installed the visual basic mode for emacs. It seems to be loading on emacs startup and the VB mode loads when I open a *.bas file. The code is not highlighted at all, however.

I'm using Emacs23, tried it with 21 and saw no difference.

Background for the curious: I am rewriting a set of codes from VB to Python. The syntax highlighting will make it much easier for me to see what's going on.

Answer 1

When the VB mode loads, is the font-lock-mode enabled?

Try: M-x describe-variable font-lock-mode and see if it set. If not, turn it on by M-x font-lock-mode and see if that works. If so, you can force this automatically by adding this to your .emacs:

(add-hook 'visual-basic-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)

or just turn it on for everything:

(global-font-lock-mode 1)