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

From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:00:34 -0800

> > > compile (and grep) require font-lock to work.
> > 
> > They did not used to require font locking.  This is a 
> > regression, a feature loss, if users are deprived of the
> > Emacs `grep' and `compile' commands if they
> > simply turn off font-locking.
> 
> Users will not be deprived of anything, I think.  The problem is that
> these features turn font-lock on in the compilation buffer, which is a
> nuisance (for those who turned it off).

Good.  But what was said was that "compile (and grep) require font-lock to
work".  That's what my comment responded to.

If that is not true, then users are not deprived of important functionality -
they need only turn font-lock back off after it gets turned on automatically in
the compilation buffer.  Annoying, but in that case we cannot say that grep and
compile will not work.