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

[Drew Adams]

> OK, that one is a known problem: compile.el (used for M-x compile and
> M-x grep) uses font-lock internally, so it forces font-lock to
> be enabled.

Glad to hear it is seen as a bug. (It's a regression, since users lose a feature
they had previously: being able to compile or grep without font-locking.)

> I hope we can fix it for Emacs-24 (by making compile.el use 
> syntax-propertize-function rather than font-lock)

I too hope it gets fixed.