Re: Turning off colorization

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> So maybe Emacs could offer a way to turn off colors without turning off
> syntax highlighting, at least in SHR. I think it would be generally
> useful, but don't know if and how it could work generally.

Yeah.  It seems like whenever somebody asks for stuff in this area, it's
always "make all those colours go away", not "make syntax highlighting
stop".  For instance, I would assume that people would still want links
in eww to be underlined even if nothing colourful happens.

So perhaps Emacs just needs another general setting here?  `color-mode'
(or something).  If that (buffer-local) variable is nil, redisplay would
simply ignore all foreground/background colour specs.

This isn't really about syntax highlighting, but about how some people
prefer monochrome buffers, I think.

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