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Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:26:45 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
> While I agree with all of David's arguments (and even add the one that
> a buffer tail is stealthily refontified after every single buffer change
> followed by 16 secs idleness) I'm afraid that setting this to nil won't
> remove any support burden. Many major modes still work better when they
> are allowed to fontify a buffer from beginning to end.
Stealth fontification doesn't do that anyway.
> Also, when a mode uses font-lock to assign `syntax-table' properties,
> there's a slight chance that an editing sequence that worked with
> stealth fontification turned on will not work any more when stealth
> fontification is turned off. Having fontification assign syntax-table
> properties is certainly flawed by design but at the moment there's no
> other way to do that automatically.
When there are such bugs, stealth fontification doesn't prevent them.
It may hide them occasionally (non-deterministically), depending on the
specific editing steps.
> With other words, setting this to nil may cause some obscure bugs get
> reported (and hopefully fixed) earlier ...
Indeed, and with a recipe that may be slightly easier to reproduce.
Stefan
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, (continued)
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/02/26
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Jan Djärv, 2007/02/26
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, David Kastrup, 2007/02/26
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/02/26
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Kim F. Storm, 2007/02/26
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, martin rudalics, 2007/02/26
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, martin rudalics, 2007/02/26
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, David Kastrup, 2007/02/26
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Kim F. Storm, 2007/02/26
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, martin rudalics, 2007/02/26
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Kim F. Storm, 2007/02/26
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/02/26
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Stefan Monnier, 2007/02/26
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Miles Bader, 2007/02/26
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Stefan Monnier, 2007/02/26
- Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Miles Bader, 2007/02/26