Subject: bug#7771: 23.1; can't turn off font-lock-mode globally

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:34:35 -0500

> It's not a question of preference.  I literally cannot discern the
> characters on the screen when font lock is on.

Here are the known cases for this kind of problem:
- Your screen's colors are off-base.  Some possible cases are if you're
  running within an xterm whose color palette is more limited than usual
  or is somehow different from what Emacs expects.
- Emacs mis-identifies your background color and chooses the
  light-background set of colors rather than the dark-background set
  (or vice-versa).
  In this case, customizing frame-background-mode may help.
- Your vision is impaired.

I assumed you were in the third case, but maybe not.

        Stefan