How do I stop emacs from colouring the text of the file I am editing? I want everything just in plain white. I know that I can load themes, but it's not obvious which theme does what. Can I just disable all the colouring so that when I start emacs up, all the text is always white?
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Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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I have now done this. – Tola Odejayi Jan 07 '14 at 18:01
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The syntax highlighting depends on the major mode. `text-mode` should not involve any syntax highlighting. – jordanm Jan 07 '14 at 18:12
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1Thanks - important for colorblind folks like me for whom the new colors and my background color look nearly identical.... – nealmcb Nov 08 '20 at 18:53
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I was looking for "how can I stop Emacs when it's stuck in color highlighting" which is here: https://superuser.com/questions/641124/how-to-interrupt-emacs-when-control-g-does-not-work-in-very-large-files – tripleee Aug 22 '23 at 09:26
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Colours are provided by the font-lock minor mode.
To disable colouring in your current buffer, toggle font-lock-mode off with this command:
M-x font-lock-mode
To disable font-lock-mode permanently, add to your init file (~/.emacs):
(global-font-lock-mode 0)
More info is available under Font-Lock in the Gnu Emacs Manual
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1Thanks a lot - what a relief not to have to see those colours again! – Tola Odejayi Jan 07 '14 at 21:29