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Re: new text property
From: |
Hrvoje Niksic |
Subject: |
Re: new text property |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Jun 2002 22:40:56 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, i686-pc-linux) |
Colin Walters <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 07:40, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
>
>> Other highlighting mechanims have speed issues as well. For example,
>> Gnus prefers not to highlight huge messages because that would take
>> too long. If I controled that with `M-x font-lock-mode' (which would
>> buy me nothing in turns of convenience; Gnus has variables to
>> fine-tune its highlighting),
>
> It would be convenient because it is the same interface that one uses to
> enable and disable fontification in many prominent Emacs modes;
But in my view, that convenience does not outweigh the need for
consistency. Respecting `M-x font-lock-mode', but not any other
font-lock variable, is quite inconsistent.
>> I would expect things like `font-lock-maximum-size' to keep
>> working.
>
> Why?
Because I `M-x font-lock-mode' worked just fine. Because `C-h f
font-lock-mode' claims it does.
> There is no slowdown when using `font-lock-face'.
I never claimed that, sorry if that was unclear. Read the whole of my
paragraph, which you broke down in two pieces. It's all about
consistency between `M-x font-lock-mode' and the rest of the
font-lock-* setup (where font-lock-maximum-size is but one element),
which would be broken.
>> Plus, font-lock-maximum-decoration is not only about speed. Some
>> people don't *like* too much decoration.
>
> Well, that's a hard problem to solve.
Exactly. That's one more reason why I think it's not a good idea to
merge font-lock and other highlighting on the surface.
Again, I don't have strong feelings about this. If many users request
this feature, I will not veto its inclusion.
- Re: new text property, (continued)
- Re: new text property, Hrvoje Niksic, 2002/06/10
- Re: new text property, Kai Großjohann, 2002/06/10
- Re: new text property, Hrvoje Niksic, 2002/06/10
- Re: new text property, Miles Bader, 2002/06/10
- Re: new text property, Hrvoje Niksic, 2002/06/10
- Re: new text property, Stefan Monnier, 2002/06/10
- Re: new text property, Kai Großjohann, 2002/06/10
- Re: new text property, Colin Walters, 2002/06/10
- Re: new text property, Hrvoje Niksic, 2002/06/11
- Re: new text property, Colin Walters, 2002/06/11
- Re: new text property,
Hrvoje Niksic <=
- Re: new text property, Kai Großjohann, 2002/06/12
- Re: new text property, Miles Bader, 2002/06/12
- Re: new text property, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/06/11
- Re: new text property, Colin Walters, 2002/06/11
- Re: new text property, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/06/12
- Re: new text property, Adrian Aichner, 2002/06/12
- Re: new text property, Kai Großjohann, 2002/06/10
- Re: new text property, Hrvoje Niksic, 2002/06/10