From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Turning off colorization Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:13:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <874muenb56.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87egtivwop.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k33951ey.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415211229 1724 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2014 18:13:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 18:13:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: James Cloos Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 05 19:13:44 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 1Xm55S-0005cb-Ql for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 19:13:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47929 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xm55S-00005c-Af for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:13:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54948) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xm54x-0008Un-Ju for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:13:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xm54u-0003av-06 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:13:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39483) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xm54t-0003aj-Tw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:13:07 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xm54s-0003YO-4H; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:13:06 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from James Cloos on Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:00:17 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:176423 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] There are many different forms of highlighting that some users might prefer. General customization facilities are the way to cater to all those preferences. However, anyone may need to turn off highlighting for a particular file because (1) font lock is too slow for it or (2) too much text is in a dark color and hard to see. Thus, I suggest we give M-x font-lock-mode some obvious aliases, and put a switch for it into the Options menu. Stefan wrote: > syntax-highlight-mode sounds like a very good alias for > global-font-lock-mode. I'd welcome a patch which takes care of that. That's not what we need. The global setting is a default. Once you specify the defaults you want, you will probably never change that setting again. What we need, for the default, is to make it easy to specify the settings permanently (in .emacs). However, you will need to turn off highlighting occasionally in a particular buffer because of specific problems. We should make obvious ways to toggle it in the current buffer. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.