Re: slow redisplay after changing cursor color

[Kim F. Storm]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> I only added the face-no-inherit property for the `cursor' face at this time.
>
>> I didn't change defface / custormize-face to reject :inherit from face
>> with the face-no-inherit property  (it would be nice, but I don't quite
>> know how to do that).
>
> We could default face-no-inherit to t and set it to nil when we realize
> a face and follow a :inherit.  I.e. all automatic.
>
> Or we could call it `children' instead of `face-no-inherit', default it to
> nil, and add faces to it whenever we find them while realizing faces, then
> we could flush only the children rather than all_faces.

Those would be nice optimizations.

But in general, I don't think emacs is slow to realize faces -- so maybe
this is overengineering.

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