Simple syntax table stuff

[thorne <thinly-disguised@spam-sucks.foo>]

Hello.  I would like to be able to font-lock strings in a text-mode
type buffer.  I have figured out i can do this:

(defun fontify-strings ()
  "Add font-lock to double-quoted strings in the current buffer."
  (interactive)
  (modify-syntax-entry ?\" "\"")
  (font-lock-fontify-buffer))

Which does work, but it is permanant--i don't know how to write code
to turn the feature off.  Is there a way to do that (i assume there
must be)?

Also, is there a way to define comment delimiters in syntax such that
a character is a comment start if and only if it is in column 1?

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