Re: Partly deferred font-locking?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> [...]

Thanks to you two for elaborating.

> Yes, the Lisp interpreter also tests for input in many places.  But if
> you call a C library function, that won't happen until it returns.

I did not expect that (or have already learned it).  It is not such a
big problem for what we discuss IME.  Unless maybe in cases where a disk needs
to spin up or so - but that blocks other things as font-lock (command
loop) as well.

Michael.