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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai writes:

> As I understand, M-x font-lock-mode RET _is_ generic, despite the
> name.

How have you come to that conclusion?  There are different
highlighting mechanisms that have nothing to do with font-lock mode,
such as those used by Gnus and VM.

> But in the end, it doesn't make too much of a difference:
> font-lock-mode is just a general toggle for the mode to do
> highlighting however it likes to do that.

You can overload font-lock-mode to mean that, but it has traditionally
not been the case.