From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Turning off colorization Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 17:03:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415570674 6322 80.91.229.3 (9 Nov 2014 22:04:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 22:04:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Paul W. Rankin" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 09 23:04:27 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 1Xnaaw-0004XS-La for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 23:04:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40122 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xnaaw-0005gk-88 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 17:04:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47210) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xnaad-0005gT-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 17:04:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnaaW-0002GT-0e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 17:04:07 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:1552) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnaaV-0002G5-TE; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 17:03:59 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Au4MAOatTlRLd+sd/2dsb2JhbABcgw6DYoZ+y1MEAgKBHBcBAXyEAwEBAwFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIhLCctyAQEBAQYBAQEBHpEIB4RLBYtkpjyBb4QWH4J6AQEB X-IPAS-Result: Au4MAOatTlRLd+sd/2dsb2JhbABcgw6DYoZ+y1MEAgKBHBcBAXyEAwEBAwFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIhLCctyAQEBAQYBAQEBHpEIB4RLBYtkpjyBb4QWH4J6AQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.04,797,1406606400"; d="scan'208";a="96497896" Original-Received: from 75-119-235-29.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([75.119.235.29]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 09 Nov 2014 17:03:57 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 43B2B66100; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 17:03:57 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Paul W. Rankin's message of "Sun, 09 Nov 2014 14:14:02 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:176650 Archived-At: > Am I doing something wrong in using font-lock-mode to manage these text > properties? I tried to follow the docs to the letter. The way to decide is simple: font-lock-mode should be a cosmetic choice. The user should be able to turn it off and still get the same functionality, just with less visual effects (the user who turns off font-lock might call it "clutter" ;-). Stefan