Subject: Re: bug#59828: Fundamental Mode buffers fail to keep text properties

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2022 22:04:54 +0200

> Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2022 19:23:02 +0000
> From: Heime <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> > > What do you think about having fundamental-mode also turn font-lock on ?
> > 
> > 
> > What it does now is the result of what we think. That's why it is called
> > Fundamental.
> > 
> > Anyway, there's no bug here, so I'm closing this.
> 
> Is fundamental mode not usually used when working on new buffers?

Not necessarily, it depends on what the Lisp program needs to do.

And turning on font-lock is just one line of Lisp away.