Re: set-fontset-font is slow if the fontset is specified by a long name

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>     Slightly incorrect.  "On creating a fontset, * in a fontset
>     name is used as a wildcard for part of a font name, and on
>     selecting a fontset, * is used as a wildcard for part or all
>     of a fontset name."

> This ambiguity is what causes the problem, I think.  Perhaps
> the solution is to separate the fontset name from the pattern
> that is used to create it.  However, I get the feeling that
> there is some utility in the fact that they are the same now.
> Is that right?

Yes.

> Maybe we could use \\* during selection as the way to specify matching
> specifically * in the fontset name.  Would it work?

That's a good idea.  I've just installed this change.

2004-11-04  Kenichi Handa  <address@hidden>

        * fontset.c (fontset_pattern_regexp): If '*' is preceded by '\',
        treat it as a literal character.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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