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

[K. Richard Pixley]

On 20110102 19:55, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > M-x compile
>
> As mentioned above, this is the same issue as M-x grep.  I hope we can
> fix it for Emacs-24 (by making compile.el use syntax-propertize-function
> rather than font-lock), but for Emacs-23 the only solution I can offer
> is to configure the relevant faces so they look the same as default.

What I'm doing manually is cursing a bit, then switching buffers and 
manually typing (global-font-lock-mode 0) to make these popups visible. 
 I wonder if we couldn't automate that process?  (Excepting, perhaps 
the cursing.)

Would it make sense to push the current value of global-font-lock-mode, 
run the rest of what these guys do, then restore the value of 
global-font-lock-mode afterwards?  That is, wrap them in a sort of 
context manager?

The end result for me would be a legible buffer and for everyone else 
would be essentially the same thing they have now.

--rich