Re: bug#7771: 23.1; can't turn off font-lock-mode globally

[K. Richard Pixley]

On 20110103 05:43, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: "Drew Adams"<drew.adams@oracle.com>
> > Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 00:13:03 -0800
> > Cc:
> >
> > > compile (and grep) require font-lock to work.
> >
> > They did not used to require font locking.  This is a regression, a feature
> > loss, if users are deprived of the Emacs `grep' and `compile' commands if they
> > simply turn off font-locking.
>
> Users will not be deprived of anything, I think.  The problem is that
> these features turn font-lock on in the compilation buffer, which is a
> nuisance (for those who turned it off).

I think this is a question of user level.

I'm a pretty advanced and long time emacs users.  But I know nothing of 
faces or font lock mode.  I only know that when these buffers pop up 
they are illegible now where previously I relied on them quite heavily. 
 M-x compile and M-x next-error make emacs historically one of the 
first IDE's and still one of the most powerful.

There's no easy path to figuring out why or how to fix them.  In effect, 
the modes are unavailable.  I mean, they're available, but they are 
illegible.

--rich