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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Dan Davison'" <dandavison7@gmail.com>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Suggestion: default value of `font-lock-verbose' should be nil
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:06:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <99E88EA8741B4570BE6DB603E5574697@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1bp3o3930.fsf@gmail.com>

> I suggest changing the default value of `font-lock-verbose' 
> to nil. The fontification messages cause noticeable slowdowns
> on OS X[1] in certain situations...
> [1] I don't know the reason for the platform-specificity.

Better to fix those "certain situations" on OS X.  Or, barring that possibility,
change the default value to nil for OS X only.  Consider filing a bug.

IOW, why change the default value for all of Emacs because you ran across a
problem on OS X?  You say that the problem is platform-specific.  So should be
the remedy.




  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-10 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-10 18:30 Suggestion: default value of `font-lock-verbose' should be nil Dan Davison
2011-01-10 19:06 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-01-10 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-11  4:32   ` Jambunathan K
2011-01-11  5:07     ` Daniel Colascione
2011-01-11  5:35       ` Stefan Monnier

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