Re: font-lock-maximum-decoration should be 2 by default?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:53:44 -0700
> 
> > > Interesting. I am curious of reasons for that.
> > 
> > Performance.  You don't gain much by omitting some fontifications
> > nowadays.  The variable was introduced to get snappier redisplay;
> > since the need for that is no longer valid, the default was set to t.
> 
> Do you have any proof of that being _the_ reason it was introduced: just for
> performance?

No proof, just my faulty memory.