Re: perl mode color highlighting working badly

[Stefan Monnier]

> For instance if I type in a " character the whole buffer is colorized, and
> when I put the second " it colorizes again.

Actually, there should be a delay of 0.5 seconds, changeable via
jit-lock-context-time.

> In 21.3 it colors that line and the next one. Then a long time later it will
> continue on. this delay allows the second " to be added without a lot of
> traffic.

Yes, the 0.5 seconds delay from jit-lock-context-time is new.  In Emacs-21,
this delay is not distinguished from the delay for stealth highlighting
(which used to be 3s but is now 16s).


        Stefan