From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: font-lock-maximum-size
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:30:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd3dvprlj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762joynza.fsf@gnu.org> (Chong Yidong's message of "Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:19:21 -0400")
> Looks like this variable doesn't work, and hasn't worked for a long
> time. It nothing when JIT lock mode is in use, and since fast-lock and
> lazy-lock are obsolete, it's pretty useless. (Anyway, source files
> larger than 250K are not uncommon.)
It does work, but only when setting font-lock-support-mode to nil
(which makes sense if you consider that the purpose was to avoid
performance problems with the eager fontification of large buffers).
> If there are no objections, I am going to mark it as deprecated, and
> remove it from the manual.
Fine by me, tho I agree with Alan that font-lock-support-mode is not
obsolete (it's indispensable to debug font-lock problems).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-17 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-17 9:19 font-lock-maximum-size Chong Yidong
2011-10-17 14:00 ` font-lock-maximum-size Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-17 15:30 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-10-18 3:11 ` font-lock-maximum-size Chong Yidong
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