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22.2.1 emacs -Q should not turn on font-lock |
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Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:53:59 +0200 |
Doing a quick bare bones editing of file:
emacs -Q README
On a white terminal[1], the results are unreadable. Please deactivate
font-lock when --no-site-file (as in -Q) option is specified.
[1] Debian; mrxvt 0.5.3-2 terminal
http://packages.debian.org/mrxvt
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Re: bug#2235: 22.2.1 emacs -Q should not turn on font-lock |
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Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:24:09 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> Not just debugging. When other programs call for $EDITOR, the typical
> value is for emacs users is:
> EDITOR="emacs -Q -nw"
> beacuse most want the editor to start in these cases as fast as
> possible.
I'm not sure where you got the idea that the above is typical.
"-Q" didn't exist before Emacs-22, so it must a recent form of
"typical". If speed is an issue, the recommendation is rather to use
emacsclient, which will work even better in Emacs-23.
The real problem you're experiencing is that Emacs apparently cannot
reliably determine the background color of your terminal (it can do that
for recent `xterm' IIRC), so it might think it's dark whereas your
is light.
Stefan
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