Re: Grep and font-lock

[Jan D.]

> > Good to see grep working again.  However, there is an incompatible 
> > change,
> > grep now always turns on font-lock, which the old did not do.  How 
> > does
> > one go about to turn it off for grep only?  Not wanting to be against 
> > new
>
> The new compile.el uses font-lock internally, so you can't turn it off.
> But maybe we can make it so font-lock does not put any faces.

Any particular reason it doesn't behave like other modes, i.e. if
global font lock is off, and not otherwise turned on, via a hook for
example, leave it off?

        Jan D.