[Bug? Docs?] It's not obvious from the docs how to disable highlighting when using RichHandler

[MatrixManAtYrService]

• I've checked docs and closed issues for possible solutions.
• I can't find my issue in the FAQ.
  (I found it, but there's more to it)

Describe the bug

I noticed unexpected splotches of green in my log ouput using RichHandler.

I see that the FAQ says I need to disable highlighting. The initializer for RichHandler does this, however:

HIGHLIGHTER_CLASS: ClassVar[Type[Highlighter]] = ReprHighlighter
...
self.highlighter = highlighter or self.HIGHLIGHTER_CLASS()

So setting highlighter to None doesn't disable it. Eventually I settled on this:

RichHandler(highlighter=NullHighlighter())

...which works just fine

This would be easier to work with if either the default value for the kwarg was ReprHighlighter, and setting it to None effectively disabled the highlighter. Or, if that's undesirable for some reason, if the use of NullHighligher with RichHandler was documented in the "how to disable" section here: https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/latest/highlighting.html

Platform
MacOS
rich==13.7.1

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[Jannchie]

I also found this very confusing. Initially, I tried to provide a console without highlighter, but none of them worked:

console = Console(highlighter=None) # not work
console = Console(highlighter=NullHighlighter()) # not work
RichHandler(console=console)