Re: bug#7771: 23.1; can't turn off font-lock-mode globally

[K. Richard Pixley]

On 20110102 19:21, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Glenn Morris<rgm@gnu.org>  wrote:
> > "K. Richard Pixley" wrote:
> >
> > > M-x compile
> >
> > Dupe of http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=801
> >
> > compile (and grep) require font-lock to work.
>
>
> Richard, if you do not like the colors you can of course customize them.

It's not a question of preference.  I literally cannot discern the 
characters on the screen when font lock is on.

Some day, I may well try to set up colors that work.  But that's a very 
slow process for me.  It took me several days to do it via X defaults 
the last time I tried.  For now, I just want my screen visible again. 
And font-lock mode appears to be the culprit.

If color customization were easy, wouldn't there be a functional 
(global-font-lock-mode 0)?

--rich