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bug#56682: Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns


From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: bug#56682: Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 00:54:55 +0300
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.9.1

On 01.08.2022 15:12, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
But the problem here is that it isn't "people shooting themselves in
the foot", it's that "major modes shoot their users in the foot".
IOW, the ones who shoot and the ones who get shot are not the same
people.

What do you want a user to do when he/she is faced with a mode which
makes Emacs very slow?  Such a user cannot blame his/herself; in many
cases the use doesn't even know enough to realize it's the major mode
and its fontifications that are the culprit.

Just like we do in such cases where an Emacs feature is not optimized enough for a given use case: wait for the user to realize the situation can and should be improved, and file a bug report/feature request.





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