From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Kelvin White <kwhite@gnu.org>
Cc: Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk>,
Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Turning off colorization
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 11:10:57 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a946z9am.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG-q9=ZZajNqgnXVPTF1=fgZx9WrZ121rmtYRsNjpjZQFz9zGg@mail.gmail.com>
Kelvin White writes:
> > I wish it was called colorization-mode instead of font-lock. I think
> > font-lock is a more and more confusing name.
>
> 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
Are you too young to have read a computer science textbook on paper?
Originally the idea was black and white presentation (colored pixels
were too fat for high density text) using fonts and faces to express
what today we use color to express.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-05 2:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-04 16:43 Turning off colorization Richard Stallman
2014-11-04 17:11 ` Phillip Lord
2014-11-05 4:57 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-05 9:11 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-05 11:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-05 11:51 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-05 12:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-05 13:05 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-05 11:52 ` Phillip Lord
2014-11-05 12:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-05 12:30 ` Phillip Lord
2014-11-05 12:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-05 12:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-05 17:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-05 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-05 17:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-05 19:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-05 20:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-05 12:55 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-05 13:00 ` Yoni Rabkin
2014-11-05 14:00 ` James Cloos
2014-11-05 18:13 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-05 23:37 ` James Cloos
2014-11-06 10:05 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-06 15:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-06 16:03 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-06 16:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-07 7:13 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-07 14:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-08 6:44 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-08 15:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-09 20:06 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-07 7:12 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-05 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-06 20:13 ` N. Jackson
2014-11-06 21:42 ` Tim Cross
2014-11-06 23:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-07 0:10 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-11-07 4:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-05 18:12 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-05 11:05 ` Phillip Lord
2014-11-04 20:59 ` Nic Ferrier
[not found] ` <CAG-q9=a+nTM3KhYeBfzvSZOWKMjdDgaUyQw25_NkAkoad3QwOw@mail.gmail.com>
2014-11-05 1:09 ` Kelvin White
2014-11-05 2:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2014-11-05 8:23 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2014-11-06 16:47 ` N. Jackson
2014-11-06 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-06 19:55 ` N. Jackson
2014-11-06 18:00 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2014-11-06 19:44 ` N. Jackson
2014-11-06 19:44 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-06 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-07 6:36 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-07 7:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-07 7:59 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-07 9:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-06 21:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-07 0:04 ` James Cloos
2014-11-07 13:57 ` Gregor Zattler
2014-11-07 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-07 14:47 ` Gregor Zattler
2014-11-07 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-07 15:27 ` Gregor Zattler
2014-11-07 16:59 ` James Cloos
2014-11-07 19:12 ` Mirek Kaim
2014-11-07 18:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-07 7:13 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-07 8:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-08 6:44 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-08 8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-08 21:36 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-08 22:18 ` James Cloos
2014-11-08 22:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-08 22:51 ` James Cloos
2014-11-09 1:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-09 3:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-10 15:29 ` Mirek Kaim
2014-11-10 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-10 18:37 ` Mirek Kaim
2014-11-11 1:32 ` Yuri Khan
2014-11-11 17:58 ` Mirek Kaim
2014-11-09 3:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-09 14:57 ` James Cloos
2014-11-09 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-09 20:07 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-09 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-10 19:07 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-10 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<83r3xfs8mx.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-11-07 14:43 ` Drew Adams
2014-11-07 15:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-07 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-07 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-08 6:44 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-09 4:14 ` Paul W. Rankin
2014-11-09 20:08 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-09 22:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-10 1:41 ` Paul Rankin
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