From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aidan Kehoe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Stealth fontification GCs a lot Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 23:24:53 +0200 Message-ID: <16989.36389.571158.85316@parhasard.net> References: <01c53ee5$Blat.v2.4$0af9c0a0@zahav.net.il> <01c53f91$Blat.v2.4$46f81b40@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113427538 24316 80.91.229.2 (13 Apr 2005 21:25:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:25:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 13 23:25:35 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLpLe-0002qV-PB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 23:24:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLowF-0001DR-5I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:58:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DLov2-00010j-0Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:57:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DLoum-0000r7-U9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:56:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLoul-0000pK-FR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:56:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [69.93.255.210] (helo=addict.virtualprozac.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DLpMw-0005TH-2O; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:25:54 -0400 Original-Received: by addict.virtualprozac.com (Postfix, from userid 1005) id F16C8726AB; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:24:53 +0100 (IST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 17) "Jumbo Shrimp" XEmacs Lucid X-Echelon-distraction: rain BSS Noriega Trump Hackers Meta-hackers X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35954 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35954 Ar an tri=C3=BA l=C3=A1 d=C3=A9ag de m=C3=AD Aibr=C3=A9an, scr=C3=ADobh = Richard Stallman:=20 > The problem is that I've never noticed any positive effect of stea= lth > fontification, whereas any setting, no matter how low will eat up = my > battery for no good reason. >=20 > Aside from the peculiar AUCTeX issue, does anyone see a benefit in > stealth fontification? Is the idea that it avoids delays when you mov= e > to other parts of the buffer, because they've been fontified while > you were on the phone? I use and appreciate stealth fontification, because while I care about different portions of my source files appearing with different colours ba= sed on their syntactic functions, I care *much more* about seeing those sourc= e files *immediately,* when I open the file in question, because there=E2=80= =99s a very good chance I opened the file just to see its contents. As such, stealth fontification allows me to have both fontification and immediate text display. --=20 =E2=80=9CI, for instance, am gung-ho about open source because my family = is being held hostage in Rob Malda=E2=80=99s basement. But who fact-checks me, or = Enderle, when we say something in public? No-one!=E2=80=9D -- Danny O=E2=80=99Brie= n