From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: font-lock woes Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:32:01 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <39ea10ab-bead-4b21-811b-02da77107fdd@35g2000prb.googlegroups.com> References: <9%vTo.21502$Zf2.1272@newsfe17.iad> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293853230 23680 80.91.229.12 (1 Jan 2011 03:40:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 03:40:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 01 04:40:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PYsKP-00011s-H1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 04:40:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48611 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PYsKP-0000W5-0o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:40:25 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!35g2000prb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.73.35.230 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1293852721 27359 127.0.0.1 (1 Jan 2011 03:32:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 03:32:01 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 35g2000prb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=116.73.35.230; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:183794 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78003 Archived-At: On Jan 1, 7:07=A0am, "K. Richard Pixley" wrote: > I find font-lock modes to be illegible and highly annoying. =A0Is there > any way I can turn them off, completely, across the board, entirely, > throughout my emacs? > > (global-font-lock-mode 0) doesn't seem to work. =A0I have it in my > .emacs.el and I'm setting it manually and still when I visit a new file, > or any of a number of popup buffers arrive, they still have illegible > font-lock color settings. > > --rich Theres some bug here; certainly a doc-bug. global-font-lock-mode's doc refers to turn-on-font-lock-if-desired but that is undocumented Both in emacs23 and 24