On Thu, Mar 31 2011, Stephen Berman wrote:

> Since this change:
>
> 2011-03-21  Julien Danjou  <julien@danjou.info>
>
> 	* mm-view.el (mm-display-inline-fontify): Make mode optional, and call
> 	normal-mode if not set. Set temp buffer unmodified to avoid kill-buffer
> 	query.
> 	(mm-inline-text): Render normal text with fontification whenever
> 	possible.
>
> plain text in MIME parts between quotation marks is shown in
> font-lock-string-face.  I couldn't find any discussion about this on the
> list, so I don't know what the motivation for it is, but I don't like
> it.  Is it possible to suppress just this fontification?  If not, I
> would like to request that it be made configurable.  Thanks,

I just noticed that too. This is a side effect of that new feature, it
fontifies with fundamental mode. What a weird idea. :)
I've blacklisted this mode for fontification, since it has no interest.

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Julien Danjou
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