Re: Turning off colorization

[N. Jackson]

At 11:02 -0400 on Wednesday 2014-11-05, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Someone posted a patch last year or so, that made it possible to tweak
> in Elisp the computation of faces (IIRC it was around the discussion
> of the fallback-background color, to try and dynamically compute the
> background face to use for the region, so that it's always visible).

Perhaps you are thinking of this message by Daniel Colascione?:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg01272.html

Unfortunately, this very promising approach (which it seems would
minimise the need for turning off "colourisation" in buffers just to be
able to see the text) seemed to get derailed by bickering over defaults.

Regards,
N. Jackson