From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Turning off colorization Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 16:03:27 +0000 Message-ID: <20141106160327.GB3385@acm.acm> References: <874muenb56.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87egtivwop.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k33951ey.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871tpgwsnc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415290368 10226 80.91.229.3 (6 Nov 2014 16:12:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 16:12:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 06 17:12:41 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XmPfq-0001eD-DK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 17:12:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54756 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmPfp-0003oj-V9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 11:12:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41241) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmPXh-0005lM-K9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 11:04:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmPXa-0000F3-5i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 11:04:13 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:56784 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmPXZ-0000EJ-T8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 11:04:06 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 21532 invoked by uid 3782); 6 Nov 2014 16:04:03 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9519DE4.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.81.157.228]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 17:04:02 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 4919 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Nov 2014 16:03:27 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 8.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176451 Archived-At: Hello, Stefan. On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 10:26:33AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I have to admit that one to be puzzling to me. Why would one remove an > > option from the menus because its default has changed? > The reason why we added it to the menu is because "everyone" wanted to > enable it, so we wanted to make it as easy as possible. > OTOH I find it is rather rare for people to want to disable > font-lock-mode (or jit-lock-mode for that matter). It's not that rare for me. I do it to make it less difficult to diagnose bugs in font-locking. Disabling font-lock-mode and setting font-lock-support-mode to nil is a normal thing to do. > To the point that it has crossed my mind a few times that maybe > a redesign of the code is in order: get rid of the font-lock-mode minor > mode, set fontification-functions globally (i.e. enable jit-lock in all > buffers) and have it call font-lock-set-defaults. You're trolling, right? ;-) > Stefan -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).