GNU bug report logs - #7771
23.1; can't turn off font-lock-mode globally

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "K. Richard Pixley" <rich <at> noir.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7771: 23.1; can't turn off font-lock-mode globally
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 06:05:23 +0200

> From: "K. Richard Pixley" <rich <at> noir.com>
> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:23:14 -0800
> 
> What I'm doing manually is cursing a bit, then switching buffers and 
> manually typing (global-font-lock-mode 0) to make these popups visible. 
>   I wonder if we couldn't automate that process?  (Excepting, perhaps 
> the cursing.)
> 
> Would it make sense to push the current value of global-font-lock-mode, 
> run the rest of what these guys do, then restore the value of 
> global-font-lock-mode afterwards?  That is, wrap them in a sort of 
> context manager?

What does global-font-lock-mode have to do with this?  Compilation
mode only turns on font-lock in the current buffer, normally the
compilation buffer.  So just turning it off in that buffer (with
"M-x font-lock-mode RET")  should be enough.  Or am I missing
something?

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