Re: Turning off colorization

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Someone posted a patch last year or so, that made it possible to tweak
>> in Elisp the computation of faces (IIRC it was around the discussion
>> of the fallback-background color, to try and dynamically compute the
>> background face to use for the region, so that it's always visible).
> Perhaps you are thinking of this message by Daniel Colascione?:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg01272.html

Indeed.

> Unfortunately, this very promising approach (which it seems would
> minimise the need for turning off "colourisation" in buffers just to be
> able to see the text) seemed to get derailed by bickering over defaults.

The discussion was about what to do for the 24.4 release, and it wasn't
a good time to make such fundamental changes.

Now would be a good time to add such functionality.


        Stefan