Subject: bug#32027: 26.1; variable font-lock-major-mode is nil in text-mode

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 18:08:21 +0300

> From: Benjamin Orthen <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2018 19:53:14 +0000
> 
> Problem:
> 
> The variable font-lock-major-mode is nil after opening a text file, even
> when global-font-lock-mode is set to t and font-lock-mode is set to t in buffer.

Because Text mode doesn't set up any font-lock related settings, no?