From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Suggestion: default value of `font-lock-verbose' should be nil Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:06:07 -0800 Message-ID: <99E88EA8741B4570BE6DB603E5574697@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294686511 7965 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2011 19:08:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:08:31 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Dan Davison'" , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 10 20:08:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PcN6Q-00011m-11 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:08:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57896 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PcN6O-0005dh-R0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:08:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42199 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PcN66-0005Nk-PM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:08:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PcN5Z-0006NN-3Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:08:06 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:31069) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PcN5Y-0006ND-QB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:07:32 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet13.oracle.com (rcsinet13.oracle.com [148.87.113.125]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id p0AJ7SEC016938 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:07:29 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by rcsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id p0AHO1Z4031059; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:07:28 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt001.oracle.com by acsmt355.oracle.com with ESMTP id 913609531294686367; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:06:07 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:06:06 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Acuw9/HH8+vvusHbSEOdu2gQPsBdMAAAPGAw In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:134413 Archived-At: > 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.