From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Turning off colorization Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 11:10:57 +0900 Message-ID: <87a946z9am.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87h9ye65t5.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415153506 18468 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2014 02:11:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 02:11:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nic Ferrier , Emacs development discussions To: Kelvin White Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 05 03:11:37 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 1Xlq4O-0005QP-4n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 03:11:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43902 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xlq4N-0004GY-MP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:11:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58993) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xlq41-0004EK-HS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:11:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xlq3t-0001qP-Oo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:11:13 -0500 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:59691) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xlq3t-0001kk-FX; Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:11:05 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id C26561C3A97; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 11:10:57 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B60B11A27CF; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 11:10:57 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" acf1c26e3019 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 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:176373 Archived-At: 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.