Re: How to *completely* disable font-lock mode in my .emacs?

[jasonr (Jason Rumney)]

Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com> writes:

> I'm sick of seeing light colored text on a light grey background, which
> I cannot read.  I don't really want to customize the colors, I just want
> them gone.  And I'm sick of manually turning off font lock mode all the
> time.  I've tried in vain to figure out what I can put in my .emacs that
> will prevent font lock mode from ever being used.

You don't need to put something in your .emacs, you need to take
something out. font-lock-mode is disabled by default.

OTOH, you might want to look at using a different terminal emulator
if your current one is not working correctly. You mention Windows in
another post - PuTTY works fine with either light or dark background,
and is a better terminal emulator in general than most of the
alternatives on Windows.