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Re: kill ring menu
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: kill ring menu |
Date: |
Tue, 07 May 2002 08:27:24 +0300 |
> From: Colin Walters <address@hidden>
> Date: 07 May 2002 00:03:59 -0400
>
> if resource consumption is a
> problem, then we should be able to trim down font-lock.el such that if a
> mode implements its own `font-lock-fontify-region' function, all the
> regexp and other machinery wouldn't be loaded.
Just to give you more insight about the efficiency and resource
consumption: these issues popped up several time in the past, and IIRC
the problems uncovered by people who tinkered with and profiled the
relevant code were such that trimming font-lock.el would not solve
them. For example, in some cases the syntactic fontification causes
Emacs to perform long searches (to find the beginning of a syntactic
entity), and thus slows down redisplay in large buffers, since
font-lock is run by hooks provided by the display engine.
I suggest to search the archives of emacs-devel for related keywords,
if you are interested in the details.
(I'm not saying that I'm for or against the proposal you put forward.
I just commented on something that seems to be related to this
discussion.)
- Re: kill ring menu, (continued)
- Re: kill ring menu, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/05/06
- Re: kill ring menu, Colin Walters, 2002/05/06
- Re: kill ring menu, Francesco Potorti`, 2002/05/08
- Re: kill ring menu, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/08
- Re: kill ring menu, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/06
- Re: kill ring menu, Colin Walters, 2002/05/07
- Re: kill ring menu,
Eli Zaretskii <=