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

[K. Richard Pixley]

On 20110103 12:39, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > It appears as though people may be erroneously conflating font-lock
> > modes with syntactic meaning of the underlying text and keying off
> > font-lock values rather than the syntactic meanings.  This leads to the
> > erroneous programmer impression that font-lock is a necessary
> > prerequisite for their code, so they force it on.
>
> You are entitled to your opinions, but to me syntax-sensitive colors
> are an important feature because they show me my mistakes before they
> hit the compiler.

I'm not arguing about whether syntax sensitive colors are an important 
feature.  I agree that it makes sense for emacs to make this feature 
available.

I have similar functionality from autoindent, blink paren closing, etc 
so I do understand that when these work, they provide earlier notice of 
problems.

My argument is that syntax sensitivity should be available independently 
of color presentation.  That is, I should have blink matching parens, 
autoindent, etc, even if I have colors turned off.

--rich