From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "William D. Colburn (Schlake)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Giving up on colors, I need help Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:27:42 -0700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361559599 5568 80.91.229.3 (22 Feb 2013 18:59:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:59:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 22 20:00:22 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1U8xr3-000754-9Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:00:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33491 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8xqi-00087F-WD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:00:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38615) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8xLc-0004Ux-SL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:28:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8xLV-0000QP-4K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:27:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com ([209.85.212.182]:39319) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8xLU-0000Pz-S7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:27:45 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-wi0-f182.google.com with SMTP id hi18so1107230wib.3 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:27:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=JflO2odN4FxZ4P2L8iK+xGSWq09lupowmm6715AaNtA=; b=d39c7XzZsV51sqgUUx3Vaqf2fKWrtsSFHP/uTP9Ebff9V7YipGZl8K4Y6qGVESnV6e sgGWhlQYjnzdaZx0OUk2FrRodQQguB38h/tC9C/dF3QNrCyTdFG36MCY6TnO4RNYoxbt c0RP1FESQeEWFcnZm0qdg8tnMzDPAzoPNvO7pImaQjBtgj1PAyW6Cjd0K+Wssc3JR9z/ MAr7SDODAh8lO2ZGxOX5WDfLAgEz4bBYU7WpIV34B68/8z6H6ISv/IknLMQYmIlm//B0 h260/c72JXlX643PMuZb6Dgc/rov4Pa3ZuibLq2EA6ZD+ytk63FDhtAtV9fsOUAxORgM FvPg== X-Received: by 10.194.103.163 with SMTP id fx3mr5381253wjb.58.1361557663431; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:27:43 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.216.237.162 with HTTP; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:27:42 -0800 (PST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.212.182 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:59:56 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89221 Archived-At: Since October of 2007 I've fought an ever losing battle against emacs. I want to be able to see the words on the screen. Either black words on a white screen or white words on a black screen. I'm finally defeated. My last stand had been, for the past few years, to always type ESC-x text-mode every time I started emacs to make the screen readable. But now, at my new job running 21.4.1 the colors remain even in text mode. Back in 2007 I did (global-font-lock-mode 0), but that stopped working years ago. I added (defun turn-on-font-lock () "Turn off Font Lock mode because it sucks." (global-font-lock-mode 0)) to keep it from happened, but that doesn't do anything anymore. I tried (setq font-lock-maximum-size -1) and (setq font-lock-maximum-size 0) and (setq font-lock-maximum-size 1) but none of those helped. For my frequently used mode I tried (add-hook 'python-mode-hook (lambda () (global-font-lock-mode nil))) and (add-hook 'python-mode-hook (lambda () (font-lock-mode nil))) but that didn't work. I had been using --color=no on the command line, which didn't really work either, and which no longer exists. And now that ESC-x text-mode doesn't work anymore I'm stumped. What on earth do I have to do to turn off colors? Why is this so hard? What am I missing? -- void *(*(*schlake(void *))[])(void *);