Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Impending release...

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2005-05-09) writes:

> font-lock performance still is rather bad.  If you have sources
> installed on your system, locate, for example, longtable.dtx and page
> through it while font-locking is on with page down, default settings.
>
> Slow as molasses.  We really have to get our defaults into a state
> where they are workable.  I don't get to see much of the font locking
> since I have it disabled, anyway, but I am not typical and it worries
> me.

The wrong fontifications should now be fixed, which should also
improve performance a bit.  Improving it even further will mean to
deal with `comment-forward'.  It should disregard comment starters at
line beginnings in docTeX mode.  I don't know yet how to fix this.
Maybe by modifying `comment-start-skip'.  But I'll have to check how
this goes along with filling.  If there are bad interactions maybe
changing it locally could help.  But I'll have to look deeper here.

-- 
Ralf