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> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:59:12 +0100
> 
> > Inaccurate.  First, font-lock was turned off by default in _all_
> > versions of Emacs since its introduction (in v19.x, AFAIR).  More
> > importantly, a large majority of users turned it on,
> 
> I'd like to see some statistics supporting that.  A large majority of
> users does not touch defaults, according to my experience.

One evidence I can offer is the number of discussions between
developers where different people tried many times to convince Richard
to turn font-lock on by default.