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 #96 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 10:09:47 -0800

> I think a more accurate statement would be
> "compilation-mode needs font-lock to be turned on for its
> functionality, so it turns it on unconditionally in the compilation
> buffer."

Maybe that is more accurate, but the point of the thread is that
compilation-mode should _not_ "need font-lock to be turned on for its
functionality".

That was my point, anyway.  "Its functionality", at least its real raison
d'etre, does not include highlighting.  Highlighting is a nice-to-have (or not,
depending on one's preference).  It is not part of the core functionality.

But I think we all more or less agree that this should be fixed (as soon as it
can be).
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