Re: How to add pseudo vector types

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 7/20/21 12:32 PM, Stephen Leake wrote:
> Computing fontification and indentation must be synchronous.

Must?  What makes you say that?

> Except that the results will not be useful, since they won't apply to
the original buffer if it is changed.

Then you will send the additional changes and wait.
TS is an incremental parser, so the work it will have done incorporating part 
of the changes will not be wasted.

Concrete example: if you have a bit of elisp that runs for .5s to make 
modifications to the buffer, then press "indent", and only then do you send 
changes to TS and wait for the response synchronously, then you will wait for 
.5s + time to incorporate all changes.  If you start processing the changes in 
parallel as they are made by the Elisp code, then you will only wait for .5s + 
time to incorporate only the changes that had not been processed yet.