From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#27350: 25.2; Make `inhibit-compacting-font-caches' customizable Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 18:02:53 +0300 Message-ID: <83fuf43p7m.fsf@gnu.org> References: <548efd73-7fb5-45ef-979d-59623d31df3b@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497366348 15535 195.159.176.226 (13 Jun 2017 15:05:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:05:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 27350@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 13 17:05:39 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKnNz-0003cP-AW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:05:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43819 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKnO4-0005ht-KZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:05:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50680) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKnMW-0003gJ-9a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:04:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKnMQ-0003U8-AD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:04:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:43428) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKnMQ-0003Ts-68 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:04:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKnMP-0005Nc-Ql for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:04:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:04:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 27350 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 27350-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B27350.149736620620639 (code B ref 27350); Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:04:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 27350) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Jun 2017 15:03:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46105 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKnLq-0005Mp-0q for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:03:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59469) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKnLn-0005Mb-PP for 27350@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:03:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKnLd-0002r4-Qg for 27350@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:03:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44897) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKnLT-0002fy-Kn; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4572 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dKnLS-0004mk-NS; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:03:03 -0400 In-reply-to: <548efd73-7fb5-45ef-979d-59623d31df3b@default> (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 13 Jun 2017 07:33:34 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:133555 Archived-At: tag 27350 wontfix quit > Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 07:33:34 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > > Subject line says it all. Please consider making this variable > customizable (a defcustom). And consider documenting it in the Emacs > manual. > > See, e.g., https://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/33510/105. This variable is a "fire escape": it only exists because we were unable to fix some of the situations where the slow-down happens (in other cases changing the end-user font configuration fixed the problem). Ideally, it will some day go away. Making it a defcustom and documenting it will make removing it harder. So no, I don't think we should do what you suggest, leaky postings on Stackexchange notwithstanding. (And those postings actually harm the project, because all such problems should be reported as bugs, allowing us to investigate as many of these problems as possible, and hopefully helping us eventually find the culprit. "Solving" them on Stackexchange avoids bringing more of such problems to our attention.)