Severity: wishlist I guess it's high time to retire lazy-lock.el and fast-lock.el, obsolete since Emacs 22.1. The last time we discussed this, I proposed to obsolete the variable 'font-lock-support-mode'. It turns out that it is still useful for debugging, so the discussion got side-tracked and nothing came of it. In a new attempt, I submit here a new patch where this variable is turned into a defvar instead, so that it can still be used for debugging. Hopefully, this should be more palatable.