From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Turning off colorization Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 01:44:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87a944cm3x.fsf@moondust.localdomain> <83r3xfs8mx.fsf@gnu.org> <92fcc04e-6837-4038-83bf-0a2583bae2ef@default> <8361errpc7.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415429145 30186 80.91.229.3 (8 Nov 2014 06:45:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 06:45:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nljlistbox2@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 08 07:45:40 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 1XmzmG-0001Cq-Dh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 07:45:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35082 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmzmG-00041N-3P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 01:45:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50925) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xmzlc-0003U5-EB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 01:45:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xmzlb-0006qw-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 01:45:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35126) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xmzlb-0006qq-DA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 01:44:59 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xmzla-0005wq-Ar; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 01:44:58 -0500 In-reply-to: <8361errpc7.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:40:40 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:176566 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > More generally, turning off font-lock certainly won't turn colors > globally in the entire Emacs display, because there are elements, like > window decorations and menus, which are not derived from buffer text, > and therefore cannot possibly be controlled by font-lock. That's true but not an anomaly. Font-lock is supposed to control the automatic colorization of buffer contents. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.