How to turn off kwrite colored text?

[joe at actionline.com]

Well, I have version 4.8.5 on Linux Mint KDE 4.8.3
so I do not have that option (and I'm afraid to
"update" Mint because every time I have ever "updated"
any installed OS, the result has been some catastrophe.


=== Brian last wrote: ===
> You should be able to set all your kwrite prefs back to default by doing:
>
> rm ~/.kde/share/config/kwriterc
>
> I'm running kwrite 4.11.1.  I've attached a screenshot of where I find
> highlighting on mine.  Perhaps you have an older version that either
> doesn't have the option, or it's in another location.