bug#5502: compile.el uses non-mode-line faces in the mode line

[Stefan Monnier]

> 2. I still wish there was a supported way to simply turn off all
> colorization, fontification, whatever you want to call it, without
> affecting functionality.

global-font-lock-mode is usually meant to be the way to get that.
As you know it doesn't work for everything (tho it does now work for
compile.el and derivatives (e.g. grep.el)), but at least for buffer
contents it generally should and when it doesn't it's usually a bug.

> All those color changes are just a distraction for me.  I just want
> black and white, the way Emacs was for many years.  But obviously
> again I'm the only dinosaur who feels like this, so I guess again
> that's just the way it'll stay.

For the mode-line/menu-bar/header-line and other such elements which are
intrinsically visually distinct, the answer is much less clear because
it's not clear what is meant by "turn off colorization".  I think what
it means depends on what was the first version of Emacs you used ;-)


        Stefan