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Re: Turning off colorization
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: Turning off colorization |
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Wed, 05 Nov 2014 11:10:57 +0900 |
Kelvin White writes:
> > I wish it was called colorization-mode instead of font-lock. I think
> > font-lock is a more and more confusing name.
>
> I agree, I've often wondered what was the idea behind that name,
> just makes no sense to me... Unless I'm missing something here
Are you too young to have read a computer science textbook on paper?
Originally the idea was black and white presentation (colored pixels
were too fat for high density text) using fonts and faces to express
what today we use color to express.
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