From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: command to fontify whole buffer? Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:30:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8BFD7E6B15F149EA96503B2768DFD6C5@us.oracle.com> <20110922143341.GB3134@acm.acm> <20110922153334.GD3134@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316713069 23789 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2011 17:37:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:37:49 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 22 19:37:45 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R6nDU-0001nB-NL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:37:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60508 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6nDT-00088N-P2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:37:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54531) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6nDR-00088A-4z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:37:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6nDP-0007MS-VF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:37:41 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43529) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6nDP-0007MF-NO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:37:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R6nDL-0001iY-Dj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:37:35 +0200 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:37:35 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:37:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BDg5AMVdsEBRjdPcKcojKs4hoV0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144198 Archived-At: on Thu Sep 22 2011, Alan Mackenzie 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 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