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#7771
23.1; can't turn off font-lock-mode globally
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Reported by: "K. Richard Pixley" <rich <at> noir.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 19:21:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 23.1
Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:29:13 -0800
> From: "K. Richard Pixley" <rich <at> noir.com>
> CC: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
>
> On 20110103 11:52, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> From: "K. Richard Pixley"<rich <at> noir.com>
> >> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:40:19 -0800
> >>
> >> I believe that the fix needs to occur at a meta level to font lock.
> > What do you mean by "meta level to font lock"?
> I mean that the mechanism for allowing or barring font lock apparently
> can't be part of the font lock subsystem. It appears as though it will
> need to be outside the font-lock system in order to _gate_ the font lock
> system.
That's what Lennart was proposing, AFAIU.
Btw, do you dislike _all_ colored text in Emacs, or only font-lock?
There are faces Emacs uses that are not related to font-lock at all,
like the "buttons" in *Help* buffers, the minibuffer prompts, the
special face for the part of file-name you type in the minibuffer that
will be ignored because it is before the "//", etc. Then there are
colors not related to text, e.g. the fringes. Do you want a feature
to turn all of those off, or just the font-lock faces?
> It appears as though people may be erroneously conflating font-lock
> modes with syntactic meaning of the underlying text and keying off
> font-lock values rather than the syntactic meanings. This leads to the
> erroneous programmer impression that font-lock is a necessary
> prerequisite for their code, so they force it on.
You are entitled to your opinions, but to me syntax-sensitive colors
are an important feature because they show me my mistakes before they
hit the compiler.
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