KJ> Andy Piper writes: KJ> This sounds completely contrary to current policy. The variable's KJ> value should default to nil so that merely loading font-lock won't KJ> cause font-lock to attack all your buffers. I agree with you both :-) I.e., the default should be nil and the (featurep 'font-lock) in fontl-hooks.el> (defun font-lock-set-defaults (&optional explicit-defaults) fontl-hooks.el> [...] fontl-hooks.el> (and fontl-hooks.el> (featurep 'font-lock) fontl-hooks.el> (if font-lock-auto-fontify fontl-hooks.el> (not (memq major-mode font-lock-mode-disable-list)) fontl-hooks.el> (memq major-mode font-lock-mode-enable-list)) should be deleted (`font-lock-set-defaults-1' probably needs an autoload) - Christoph