Re: kill ring menu

[Colin Walters]

On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 22:45, Richard Stallman wrote:

> M-x font-lock-mode in these buffers could also revert,
> so as to reconstruct the text with or without faces.
> 
> That is much simpler and much cleaner than the font-core alternative.
> It fits the problem exactly.

An example of where this won't work is with an *Occur* buffer, if the
user just wants to temporarily turn on/off fontification, but has killed
the associated buffer(s).  The occur command will fail in this case.

A somewhat similar situation could happen with a *Kill Ring* buffer; if
the user has done more killing before typing M-x font-lock-mode, then
the entry they want to see unfontified could have been rotated off the
kill ring.