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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com>
Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: font-lock-maximum-decoration should be 2 by default?
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:26:31 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y5ld9seg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874no12tan.fsf_-_@gmail.com>

> From: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com>
> Cc: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:49:04 +0200
> 
>   > Yes, Emacs Dev concluded after many years that `t' is the most appropriate
>   > default value.
> 
> 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since the need for that is no longer valid, the default was set to t.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-17 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-17 12:29 font-lock-maximum-decoration and how to make a default font-lock lower than maximal? Vitalie Spinu
2012-08-17 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-17 14:42   ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-08-17 15:57     ` font-lock-maximum-decoration and how to make a defaultfont-lock " Drew Adams
2012-08-17 19:49       ` font-lock-maximum-decoration should be 2 by default? Vitalie Spinu
2012-08-17 20:26         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-08-17 20:53           ` Drew Adams
2012-08-18  6:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-19  2:32               ` Jason Rumney
2012-08-19  3:13                 ` Drew Adams
2012-08-19  3:34                   ` Jason Rumney
2012-08-19  4:39                     ` Drew Adams
2012-08-19 10:50                     ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-08-19 16:46                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-19 17:33                     ` Drew Adams
2012-08-19 10:34                 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-08-19 16:48                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-17 20:50         ` Drew Adams
2012-08-17 22:47           ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-08-18  7:03             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-18 10:10             ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-08-21 17:31               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-22 16:50                 ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-08-26 18:27                 ` Drew Adams
2012-08-18  5:10         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-18 10:03           ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-08-19 11:10             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-19 11:47               ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-08-19 13:23                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-17 17:36     ` font-lock-maximum-decoration and how to make a default font-lock lower than maximal? Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-21 17:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-26 18:26   ` font-lock-maximum-decoration and how to make a default font-locklower " Drew Adams

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