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

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Package: emacs;

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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Message #78 received at 7771 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 7771 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#7771: 23.1; can't turn off font-lock-mode globally
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.
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