Re: can't turn off font-lock

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:24:42 -0500
> From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
> Cc: 
> 
> emacs-22.1 -q --no-site
> 
> And invoke:
> M-x eval-expression RET (global-font-lock-mode 0) RET
> 
> And now I try a few commands:
> C-h a font-lock RET             (a *Help* buffer)
> M-x grep RET e /etc/issue RET   (grep to get a couple matches)
> M-x shell RET pwd RET
> 
> In all cases, I observe that fontification is happening.  Argh!

That's not fontification, those are faces set by other features.  If
you place the cursor on one of the characters you think are fontified,
and type "C-u C-x =", Emacs will show you the face's name: you will
see that those are not font-lock faces.