Re: How to *completely* disable font-lock mode in my .emacs?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: 29 Apr 2004 17:23:47 -0700
> 
> So either nil is positive (which seems somewhat unlikely), or the
> documentation for the function is incorrect.

What global-font-lock-mode looks at is the _numerical_value_ of the
prefix arg (see the doc string of prefix-numeric-value).  You can try
that function with nil and see that

         (prefix-numeric-value nil)
           => 1