From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: turning on global-font-lock-mode by default? Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 18:44:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200503292336.j2TNavAH014494@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> <200505180622.j4I6MHKE015995@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116456750 25243 80.91.229.2 (18 May 2005 22:52:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 22:52:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 19 00:52:29 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYXNx-00041g-Gq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 00:51:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYXQT-0003xA-SC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 18:54:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYXLO-0001YA-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 18:48:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYXLI-0001Vm-EK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 18:48:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYXLC-0001Qx-Mk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 18:48:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DYXQI-0003jS-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 18:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DYXHf-00069n-55; Wed, 18 May 2005 18:44:59 -0400 Original-To: Dan Nicolaescu In-reply-to: <200505180622.j4I6MHKE015995@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> (message from Dan Nicolaescu on Tue, 17 May 2005 23:22:15 -0700) 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:37305 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37305 > Is there any reason not to turn on global-font-lock-mode by default? > > I will give it a try for a while and see what I think. Could you please share your conclusions? Initially I found some featurelets I did not like, so I changed them. Now I like the feature. However, it has caused Emacs to run out of memory and crash. I made a change recently that might fix this, but it will take time before I see if things have got better.