Re: Turning off colorization

[Stefan Monnier]

> It's not that rare for me.  I do it to make it less difficult to
> diagnose bugs in font-locking.  Disabling font-lock-mode and setting
> font-lock-support-mode to nil is a normal thing to do.

Of course, for development purposes it's handy.  But the same
functionality could be offered some other way.

>> To the point that it has crossed my mind a few times that maybe
>> a redesign of the code is in order: get rid of the font-lock-mode minor
>> mode, set fontification-functions globally (i.e. enable jit-lock in all
>> buffers) and have it call font-lock-set-defaults.
> You're trolling, right?  ;-)

No.  The only reason this hasn't happened yet is because it's
low priority.


        Stefan