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

[K. Richard Pixley]

On 20110103 08:42, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Stefan Monnier<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>  wrote:
> > As mentioned above, this is the same issue as M-x grep.  I hope we can
> > fix it for Emacs-24 (by making compile.el use syntax-propertize-function
> > rather than font-lock), but for Emacs-23 the only solution I can offer
> > is to configure the relevant faces so they look the same as default.
>
> Would it be possible to make a quick fix for needs like those we are
> discussing here by just allowing font-lock to set a property 'noface
> instead of face? Or perhaps allow the display engine to bypass the
> 'face property?

I believe that the fix needs to occur at a meta level to font lock.  If 
modes are changing a user preference randomly, that's not good.  The 
user preference needs to take precedence.  It sounds as though it needs 
to be possible to prevent font locking from being turned on.

--rich