Re: Turning off colorization

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I would be all for an easy/quick way to toggle "colourisation" on those
  > occasions when my buffer text is unreadable, but I find that toggling
  > off font-lock-mode does not help (on Emacs 24.4).

Why doesn't it help?  What's the problem?

  > It's very rare to get buffer text that's unreadable[1], except when
  > reading HTML mail in Gnus[2] where I very frequently get presented with
  > a medium grey text on a medium grey background or a very dark text on my
  > normal black background.

I find any fairly dark color for the text makes it unreadable when 
the ambient light level is high.  Very often I can read ordinary white text
and can't read blue or red text.

However, the worst problem I get with font-lock is when it takes a minute
to read my next command.

  > After reading this thread, today I tried toggling off font-lock-mode
  > (and global-font-lock-mode) in an unreadable HTML mail buffer to see if
  > that provides a better solution. However it seems to have no effect
  > whatsoever on how the buffer is displayed.

That seems like a bug.  Perhaps something is setting face properties
directly when it ought to be setting font-lock-face properties.

Can you find a test case and send a bug report?

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