Question

How can you enable syntax for MicroEmacs?

I put the following unsuccessfully to my the file uelocal_rc in my HOME.

add-global-mode "HILITE"

I also put unsuccessfully the following command both to .emacs and to uelocal_rc at my HOME.

(require 'font-lock)    ; enable syntax highlighting

This suggests me that .emacs does not manipulate Mg.
It is also possible that the name of the file uelocal_rc is not correct, since I could not find any example of such files by Google and in Github.

I am using a fresh Ubuntu installation where the standard Emacs has no syntax highlighting.

I finally changed the file endings to .el but the problem remains.

I downloaded the source of MicroEmacs by

apt-get source mg

However, I did not find any help file by ack-grep -i help/readme.

I added the following lines to my .zshrc unsuccessfully.

# MicroEmacs                                                                    
export MEINSTALLPATH="/home/masi/"
export MEPATH="/home/masi/"
export MEUSERPATH='/home/masi/'

Answer 1

I’m not familiar with MicroEmacs, but there is a detailed chapter on User Profiles in MicroEmacs’s documentation.

The private user profile is stored in
a separate directory. The directory
that MicroEmacs uses is typically
automatically created at start up, but
may be created manually by the user.
If the directory is to be placed in a
special location then the
$MEUSERPATH(5) environment
variable should be defined and set to
point at this directory location.

[…]

Users start-up file
$user-name.emf (see emf(8)).
This is typically referred to as
“user.emf” in the documentation and
means the users private MicroEmacs
macro file. The user may make local
changes to MicroEmacs in this file,
this may include definition of new key
bindings, defining new hook functions
etc. You should override the standard
MicroEmacs settings from your start-up
file rather than modifying the
standard MicroEmacs files.

And yes, it skips parsing .emacs according to the EmacsWiki as ‘[i]t lacks EmacsLisp, but offers its own sort of extension language’.