Re: Partly deferred font-locking?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Both jit-lock-defer-time and jit-lock-stealth-time defer highlighting
> to when enough idle time has passed since last command.  Is that what
> you want -- to be able to complement the highlighting by more
> highlighting?

Exactly that.

> If so, you'd need to change the 'fontified' property to
> have more than just a boolean value, and you'd need a special timer
> which examined the 'fontified' property and applied more highlighting
> if the value says it wasn't applied yet.

That would have to be done in Emacs, not in my code, right?

> Please note that expensive highlighting might make Emacs less
> responsive.

So far I'm always using `while-no-input' and code that doesn't cause
trouble when it gets interrupted.  With that approach I had been able to
avoid this issue nearly completely.

Michael.