From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: command to fontify whole buffer?
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:30:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ehz8zdrb.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20110922153334.GD3134@acm.acm
on Thu Sep 22 2011, Alan Mackenzie <acm-AT-muc.de> wrote:
> Hi, Lennart.
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 04:46:09PM +0200, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 16:33, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
>
>> > By the way, I drew a diagram of how jit-lock works about 5 years ago,
>> > tracing the functions which call each other, and the hooks out of which
>> > things get hoiked. Would you be interested in a copy of it?
>
>> Add it to Emacs documentation?
>
> Where? Also, who's going to maintain it? ;-) I think it's useful in
> its informal state.
Maybe a comment in the font locking code would be appropriate. Anyone
attempting a redesign would be tempted to read it, and thus be aware of
it. That gives it a fighting chance of staying up-to-date.
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-22 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-22 13:32 command to fontify whole buffer? Drew Adams
2011-09-22 14:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-22 14:46 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-09-22 15:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-22 17:30 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2011-09-22 22:31 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-09-22 14:56 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-22 15:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-22 15:43 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-22 22:34 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-09-25 20:54 ` Nix
2011-09-23 4:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-23 4:55 ` Jambunathan K
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