From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Newbie: Interactive goto-line ?! Date: 26 Feb 2004 19:22:08 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <403b2dbe$0$38285$e4fe514c@dreader14.news.xs4all.nl> <874qtgqq9w.fld@barrow.com> <403BBB98.5030506@yahoo.com> <877jycoxo4.fld@barrow.com> <87y8qroejs.fld@barrow.com> <87ptc3nmvq.fld@barrow.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077820337 19970 80.91.224.253 (26 Feb 2004 18:32:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:32:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 26 19:32:13 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AwQIu-00037T-00 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:32:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AwQIR-00019e-KC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:31:43 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p3ee20c99.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p3ee20c99.dip.t-dialin.net (62.226.12.153) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1077819728 54208167 I 62.226.12.153 ([198409]) X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121289 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17243 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17243 Jesper Harder writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > And on top of that, I couldn't imagine that someone nowadays would > > use Emacs without global-font-lock-mode turned on. > > I agree. Which begs the question: Why on earth is it turned _off_ > by default? I have it turned off. I use Emacs mostly for TeX programming, and there its competence in analysing complex TeX documents is not convincing (complex TeX documents can hardly be tackled by anything but TeX, since syntax categories in this macro language change on the fly). I am exposed to large amounts of text all the time. The contrast on screen is already much lower than on paper, I need not lower it more artificially. In a typical TeX macro document, more than half of the important text consists of comments. Making those less readable by casting them into some weird color is contraproductive. Colored text is also disadvantaging people with reading disabilities. Using a full-contrast display at the start for configuring an unreadable one is easier than using an unreadable one for configuring a full-contrast display. On of the few customizations I use when testing things with XEmacs is to turn off its default font lock mode. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum