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: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 02:13:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87a944cm3x.fsf@moondust.localdomain> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415344467 10910 80.91.229.3 (7 Nov 2014 07:14:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 07:14:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 07 08:14:21 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 1XmdkT-0005tX-9r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 08:14:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58647 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmdkS-0001i6-Qv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 02:14:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40921) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmdjS-0000kg-7z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 02:13:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmdjR-0004Lq-9w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 02:13:18 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53469) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmdjR-0004Ld-7g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 02:13:17 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmdjP-0004aQ-7M; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 02:13:15 -0500 In-reply-to: <87a944cm3x.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (nljlistbox2@gmail.com) 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:176509 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. ]]] > I would be all for an easy/quick way to toggle "colourisation" on those > occasions when my buffer text is unreadable, but I find that toggling > off font-lock-mode does not help (on Emacs 24.4). Why doesn't it help? What's the problem? > It's very rare to get buffer text that's unreadable[1], except when > reading HTML mail in Gnus[2] where I very frequently get presented with > a medium grey text on a medium grey background or a very dark text on my > normal black background. I find any fairly dark color for the text makes it unreadable when the ambient light level is high. Very often I can read ordinary white text and can't read blue or red text. However, the worst problem I get with font-lock is when it takes a minute to read my next command. > After reading this thread, today I tried toggling off font-lock-mode > (and global-font-lock-mode) in an unreadable HTML mail buffer to see if > that provides a better solution. However it seems to have no effect > whatsoever on how the buffer is displayed. That seems like a bug. Perhaps something is setting face properties directly when it ought to be setting font-lock-face properties. Can you find a test case and send a bug report? -- 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.