bug#2459: 22.2.1: global-font-lock-mode does not turn off colors: ido.el, minibuffer prompt

[Jari Aalto]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Jari Aalto wrote:
>
>>     After global-font-lock-mode is turned off:
>>
>>     - ido-mode still displays completions in color.
>>     - Minibuffer prompt's text is still displayed in color.
>
> These features, and several other places that use colour, are not
> implemented using font-lock, so toggling global-font-lock-mode has no
> effect. In this specific case, you can set ido-use-faces and customize
> the minibuffer-prompt face.

Perhaps those can be teach to obey global-font-lock-mode settings.
It is not feasible to have to configure those separately.

> AFAIK there is no simple way to say "give me an entirely monochromatic
> Emacs".

It used to.

Jari