Re: [AUCTeX] Re: Extremely slow input

[Ralf Angeli]

* Christoph Bier (2005-11-17) writes:

> I think I found the problem.
>
> In the affected file I found a single closing double quote (i.e. no
> opening quote): ``. After I removed it I reactivated
> font-latex-do-multi-line and edited the file again---the slow down
> was gone.

As this is a syntax error in the source file, I am afraid that I
cannot do much about it.  With the slow-down AUCTeX actually tried to
warn you about it.  Normally you see such warnings as fontification
spilling out of e.g. unclosed constructs.  In this case however it
failed to be visible.  I'll have to check this more closely with
different settings of `font-latex-quotes'.

Maybe one could change font-latex in a way that it simply returns no
match if it cannot find the end/beginning of such constructs, but then
the warning function of fontification would be gone.

-- 
Ralf