Re: jit lock sit-for provokes redisplay provokes imenu

[Kim F. Storm]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>
>>> This assumes that the patch does indeed solve the original problem
>>> (too many imenu updates during redisplay).  I haven't been able to
>>> reproduce this problem, but presumably someone can.
>>
>> Is this change still needed for fixing the original problem if we
>> completely eliminate sit-for in jit-lock?
>
> I don't think the jit-lock change will resolve this particular
> problem, which is that the text property changes during each jit-lock
> fontification leads to excessive imenu updates.
>
>> OTOH, adding buffer-chars-modified-tick in itself (and the change to
>> imenu)still seems like a good thing, and I also think the change is
>> safe.   But we need updates for lispref and NEWS.
>
> Yep.

I haven't heard any objections, so could you pls. install the patch
and write something for lispref and NEWS.

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