Re: Turning off colorization

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 02:13:15 -0500
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
>   > 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?

Not every face that defines a color is controlled by font-lock.

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

There's nothing wrong with that, we even have infrastructure for doing
so (facemenu.el).