Re: Split `simple.el'?

[Stefan Monnier]

This discussion belongs in a bug-report, not in emacs-devel.


        Stefan


Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:

>> > But not until that part of the file is actually rendered.
>> 
>> Yes, of course (though redisplay many times looks also at characters a
>> short ways above or below what will be visible).  Do we have any
>> evidence that in this case the slowdown happens also when the
>> problematic part of the file is nowhere near the visible part of the
>> buffer?
>
> Does it count as such evidence that visiting simple.el
> (which shows only the beginning of the file, once it shows
> anything) does nothing but show a blank Emacs window for
> two minutes?  It's not trying to display the chars of
> that defcustom value - that text is nowhere near the
> part of the buffer that (eventually) is shown (at the
> beginning of the file).