From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: turning off underlining, bold, all faces Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:08:18 -0500 Message-ID: <200503251908.j2PJ8Im12167@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111777837 13806 80.91.229.2 (25 Mar 2005 19:10:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:10:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 25 20:10:36 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DEuCT-0001vD-Vx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:10:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DEuQx-0002mR-51 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:25:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DEuPp-0002dM-5I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:24:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DEuPg-0002aO-BT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:24:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DEuPf-0002Zw-PY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:24:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.61.216.22] (helo=f7.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DEuAL-0004mG-Rt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:08:18 -0500 X-Envelope-From: karl@freefriends.org X-Envelope-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.7-20030920/8.11.7) id j2PJ8Im12167; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:08:18 -0500 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25151 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25151 I mostly use Emacs (21.3) in tty mode. I've tried various terminal types, makes no apparent difference; currently using "xterm-color" for no real reason. I would like to turn off all faces, i.e., underlining, bold, and other such "enhancements". (I already don't have color, despite the terminal type, and I'm happy about that.) I see there was a long thread here about this about a year ago, around http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2004-04/msg00460.html. The solution there was to do (global-font-lock-mode -1) or (global-font-lock-mode nil) That had no apparent effect for me. Maybe it only related to colors. For instance, the man buffer from M-x man man still has an ersatz bold and underline for me, after the above. Also, *Help* buffers from, eg, describe-function, have underlining. I see Joe Corneli posted a list of specific faces: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2004-04/msg00443.html Such a list is certainly better than nothing, but it seems painful and unmaintainable in general. Is there a generic way inside Emacs to just turn off everything? (I saw nothing in the manual or source about it, which surprises me, as it seems so fundamental.) If not, I wonder if devising a new terminal type without the attributes would have the same effect. Any advice welcome & appreciated. Thanks, karl