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Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:56:07 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> My recollection is that they do annoy, but I will need to time things
>> to give more accurate information instead of hand-waving.
>
>> I don't need _more accurate_ information, just confirmation. I would
>> like you to try turning off stealth fontification and see if you are
>> frequently annoyed by the need to fontify on the fly. It does not
>> need to be a quantitative measurement.
>
> Actually, a better test would be to put
>
> (if (zerop (random 1)) (setq jit-lock-stealth-time nil))
>
> in your .emacs.
Do we have a JOKES files for inadvertent jokes?
> And then check the value of jit-lock-stealth-time every time you
> notice a delay (after which, you'll want to restart jit-lock, which
> basically means restart Emacs).
>
> This should bring the experiment a bit closer to the "double blind"
> gold standard.
"double blind" only if he does not notice that (zerop (random 1)) is
always t.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/03/03