Subject: font-lock-mode: message says enabled, variable says otherwise
From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 21:53:21 +0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

$ touch /tmp/zz
$ emacs -q -f font-lock-mode --no-site-file -nw /tmp/zz
Observe message: Font-Lock mode enabled in current buffer
Now do
(describe-variable (quote font-lock-mode))
it says it is nil.
(There is only one buffer on the screen, so it must be talking about it.)

emacs-version "26.1"