From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to *completely* disable font-lock mode in my .emacs? Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 14:14:33 GMT Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87ekqu9e47.fsf@telia.com> <408FC9CB.7040606@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083594512 20411 80.91.224.253 (3 May 2004 14:28:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 14:28:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 03 16:28:18 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKeQc-0005ix-00 for ; Mon, 03 May 2004 16:28:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BKeOa-0002Zt-4U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 May 2004 10:26:12 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!charlie.risq.qc.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.24.84 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca Original-X-Trace: charlie.risq.qc.ca 1083593673 132.204.24.84 (Mon, 03 May 2004 10:14:33 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 10:14:33 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:122935 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:18222 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18222 >> So either nil is positive (which seems somewhat unlikely), or the >> documentation for the function is incorrect. > What global-font-lock-mode looks at is the _numerical_value_ of the > prefix arg (see the doc string of prefix-numeric-value). You can try > that function with nil and see that > (prefix-numeric-value nil) > => 1 I wish that was the reason. Sadly, nil is treated specially as a toggle. Stefan