Subject: Re: bug#2235: 22.2.1 emacs -Q should not turn on font-lock

From: Lennart Borgman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 14:44:28 +0100

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Jari Aalto <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Jari Aalto <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>>>  emacs -Q  README
>>>
>>> On a white terminal[1], the results are unreadable. Please deactivate
>>> font-lock when --no-site-file (as in -Q) option is specified.
>>
>> Seems to me like it is better to fix the colors used.
>
> That's good, but is only secondary problem.
>
> Please refrain from turning on additional features when "bare bones"
> (-Q) program behavior is asked.

Font lock mode is on by default since Emacs 22.

If you want "bare bones" you can perhaps use fundamental-mode in Emacs.