Re: JIT stealth font-lock tuning parameters

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > The logic behind that is that, as long as you type, the syntax of the
> > modified text can not be trusted.  If you don't consider short breaks as
> > ``real'' idleness, the effect on jit-lock-defer-contextually should not
> > annoy, I think.
> 
> When I change the syntax in a buffer, I occasionally wait for those
> 3 seconds to see the result after refontification.

Why wait at all? doesn't "M-g M-g" refontify in no time?

Anyway, I tried to reproduce the situation you describe, and I seem to be 
unable to do that: modified C source seems to be refontified 
immediately.  Could you give a recipe?

> > All I know is that quite a few people complain.
> 
> Weren't all the complaints in the w32 version of Emacs only ?

I don't think all of them, but many.