Re: Bug in font-lock/grep interaction

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> If you have
>>
>> (setq font-lock-global-modes nil)
>
> Why would you do that, as opposed to
>
> (global-font-lock-mode -1)

Does it make a difference?

>> then grep won't work:
>
> I think grep requires font-lock to be on to work, so it should
> probably override/ignore font-lock-global-modes. See
>
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=801
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=2134

grep doesn't seem to require font-lock to work?  It works fine if you
disable the colouring crap in grep-setup if font-lock is off.  I think.

But there may be use cases I haven't tested.

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