I am trying to turn off the fonfication of strings in
fundamental
mode. The following code appears to turn it off in *all* modes,
not
just fundamental mode. What do I need to do to restrict
the
suppressing of the fontification of strings to just fundamental
mode?

(defadvice fundamental-mode (before my-remove-strings
activate)
(if (eq major-mode 'fundamental-
mode)
(setq font-lock-string-face
nil)))

Davin Pearson gmail.com> wrote:

First of all, don't use advice for this! Use hooks, which are cleaner
and safer.

Second of all, setq changes the variable globally, so naturally it is
disabled everywhere. You need to make the variable buffer-local.

(defun my-fundamental-mode-hook ()
(set (make-variable-buffer-local 'font-lock-string-face) nil))

(add-hook 'fundamental-mode-hook 'my-fundamental-mode-hook)

regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher

On Sep 12, 8:57 pm, Nikolaj Schumacher wrote:

The above code doesn't work as there is no Emacs hook called
fundamental-mode-hook

Following your advice about local variables I also tried the
following:

I managed to get the following code to work:

I don't see the problem about using advice. I use advice all of the
time in Emacs.