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Re: Syntax Highlighting Latency in Emacs
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Syntax Highlighting Latency in Emacs |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:42:22 GMT |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> I don't want to start a war or anything (because it probably has something
>> to do with my system), but I am curious about something I've noticed with
>> Emacs as compared with vim. If I'm looking at a source code file in vim,
>> (and it doesn't even have to be that large - maybe a few thousand K) the
>> syntax highlighting is automatic. And if I edit something, which changes
>> the highlighting of the rest of the file, it is instantaneous. But in
>> Emacs, there is a 2 or 3 second delay in the updating of the highlighting.
> I think Emacs now uses jit-lock as the font-lock-support-mode. This
> exhibits the symptoms you're mentioning.
It's indeed the jit-lock-stealth-time delay. In Emacs-CVS this delay has
been separated from the stealth font-locking and can be made
"instantaneous".
Stefan
- Re: Syntax Highlighting Latency in Emacs, (continued)
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- Re: Syntax Highlighting Latency in Emacs, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2004/12/12
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- Re: Syntax Highlighting Latency in Emacs, jab3, 2004/12/12
- Re: Syntax Highlighting Latency in Emacs, Peter Lee, 2004/12/21
- Re: Syntax Highlighting Latency in Emacs, jab3, 2004/12/21
- Re: Syntax Highlighting Latency in Emacs, Peter Lee, 2004/12/22
- Re: Syntax Highlighting Latency in Emacs, jab3, 2004/12/22
- Re: Syntax Highlighting Latency in Emacs, Kevin Rodgers, 2004/12/27
Re: Syntax Highlighting Latency in Emacs, Pierre-Charles David, 2004/12/13
Re: Syntax Highlighting Latency in Emacs, Kai Grossjohann, 2004/12/13
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Re: Syntax Highlighting Latency in Emacs, jab3, 2004/12/21