Re: Partly deferred font-locking?

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> More complex fontification may stumble on _editing_ long lines - if
>> fontification is performed line-by-line, long lines can slow down the
>> performance significantly (which is a known problem). It is often
>> a reasonable trade-off to defer re-fontification while editing a long
>> line and re-fontify it later. I have stumbled upon this issue myself in
>> my parser-based fontification for Org.
>
> It's a trade-off: you assume that users don't want to see the
> fontifications change in near real-time when editing long lines, but
> that is just an assumption, not necessarily true.

You are right. However, I am pretty sure that many users will prefer
having font-lock stop ongoing fontification when they try to enter key
sequence. Or, at least, when they try to enter a key and fontification
is taking more than something like `jit-lock-non-stealth-time' variable
(defaulting to ~0.1 sec).

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