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Re: address@hidden: Re: mouse cannot be used in *grep* buffer if font-lo
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David Kastrup |
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Re: address@hidden: Re: mouse cannot be used in *grep* buffer if font-lock is turned off] |
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Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:59:43 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Daniel Pfeiffer) writes:
> This sounds like a step further: font-lock without fonts, i.e. a
> property lock mode. Actually I can't for the life of me imagine why
> anybody would not want font-locking, even vi can do it nowadays. It
> adds so much legibility, I feel it should be on by default.
It _removes_ legibility since it decreases the already low contrast
(as compared to paper) of computer screens further. I don't work with
font lock at all and find it very distracting in addition to
unreadable.
That being said, I second that it should be on by default. I'll turn
it off first thing, but it is the kind of thing beginners expect.
However, we would need a command line option to turn it off, too, or
people with disabilities or screen readers might be unable to even
handle turning off the default fontification via customize.
> My oldish 500MHz P3 can handle it easily and I'm pretty sure I used
> without great penalty way back on my 100MHz box.
How often do you edit 1MB text files with complex patterns? That is
not unusual if you are preparing a book.
> An easy workaround for those who want it, is to customize the faces
> to default.
But there is no sense in forcing a heavy performance penalty if you
don't even see a thing.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum