From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7771: 23.1; can't turn off font-lock-mode globally Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:34:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4D20CF4D.9010403@noir.com> <4D21184F.2040303@noir.com> <4D214C43.4010203@noir.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294034034 32344 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2011 05:53:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 05:53:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "K. 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Richard Pixley's message of "Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:10:43 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:28:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:43026 Archived-At: > It's not a question of preference. I literally cannot discern the > characters on the screen when font lock is on. Here are the known cases for this kind of problem: - Your screen's colors are off-base. Some possible cases are if you're running within an xterm whose color palette is more limited than usual or is somehow different from what Emacs expects. - Emacs mis-identifies your background color and chooses the light-background set of colors rather than the dark-background set (or vice-versa). In this case, customizing frame-background-mode may help. - Your vision is impaired. I assumed you were in the third case, but maybe not. Stefan