From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Turning off colorization Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:23:27 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20141105.092327.2276956154804517655.hanche@math.ntnu.no> References: <87a946z9am.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415175850 14768 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2014 08:24:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 08:24:10 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 05 09:24:03 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Xlvso-0002KZ-Vo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:24:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44993 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xlvso-0007E8-HL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 03:24:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38242) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlvsQ-0007Bj-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 03:23:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlvsL-0007nk-MV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 03:23:38 -0500 Original-Received: from hylle06.itea.ntnu.no ([129.241.56.235]:46122) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlvsL-0007nC-Eg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 03:23:33 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hylle06.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9745660BDC for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 09:23:30 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at hylle06.itea.ntnu.no Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2001:4662:4ff2:0:7028:62a9:3a53:110]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hanche) by hylle06.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8D6AD661256; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 09:23:28 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87a946z9am.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-URL: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/ X-Mailer: Mew version 6.6 on Emacs 24.4.51 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 129.241.56.235 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176379 Archived-At: ["Stephen J. Turnbull" (2014-11-05 02:10:57 UTC)] > Kelvin White writes: > > > I wish it was called colorization-mode instead of font-lock. I thi= nk > > > font-lock is a more and more confusing name. > >=20 > > I agree, I've often wondered what was the idea behind that name, > > just makes no sense to me... Unless I'm missing something here >=20 > Are you too young to have read a computer science textbook on paper? Perhaps it was the =E2=80=9Clock=E2=80=9D part of the name he found confu= sing. It is to me, anyhow. I suppose it stems from some implementation detail, but what it is doing in the name of the mode, beats me. =E2=80=93 Harald