From: Giuseppe Scelsi <giuseppe.scelsi@analog.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Compilation mode very slow with large files
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:26:27 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803030226.m232QR19001938@bunyip.spd.analog.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> of "Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:22:18 CDT." <jwvmypgsg5w.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan,
The reason I am doing this is to analyse build logs produced in the
past. It is very useful to be able to click on an error and jump
straight to the source code. Is there any way I could do this other
than through the compilation mode (and writing my own lisp code)?
Giuseppe
----
> > In Emacs 22.1.1 for Windows, when I open a large text file (15 MB) in
> > fundamental mode and then switch to compilation mode, emacs hangs for
> > ever, while the status bar displays "Fontifying <filename>...".
>
> Yes. This is expected. Could explain why you're doing this?
>
>
> Stefan
>
>
> PS: As for why this is; compilation-mode uses font-lock internally, so
> turning off global-font-lock-mode doesn't help because compilation-mode
> forces it back on anyway; furthermore compilation-mode needs font-lock
> to work "top-to-bottom" rather than "first treat the part that's
> displayed", so it disables jit-lock, thus causing the whole buffer to be
> fontified at start.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-03 2:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-02 23:53 Compilation mode very slow with large files Giuseppe Scelsi
2008-03-03 2:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-03 2:26 ` Giuseppe Scelsi [this message]
2008-03-03 2:50 ` Stefan Monnier
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