GNU bug report logs - #31032
can't read emacs - unusable

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: K Richard Pixley <pixleyr <at> google.com>

Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 22:11:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: K Richard Pixley <pixleyr <at> google.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: K Richard Pixley <rich <at> noir.com>
Subject: can't read emacs - unusable
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 14:07:54 -0700

I'm trying to start emacs on a random machine, some random, unknown 
configuration, and I can't read it because of the color settings.

What's the command line option to tell it to stop using color?

Many people can't discriminate colors unless they're set up by a color 
professional who understands color vision.  Most aren't. And I can't see it.

On my private configurations, I can set them to turn off font-lock mode, 
but from the command line, even --eval='(global-font-lock-mode 0)' 
doesn't seem to be working.

Incredibly frustrating.
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