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From: hector <hectorlahoz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs coding modes need 'Suspend Disbelief' button
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 13:45:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170519114510.GA4792@workstation> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALyZvKzyfer+sqHGuUEyz05pi_Q4aQnJk0=F6-06KvVaw2=_9g@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 10:54:28AM +0000, Jason Vas Dias wrote:
> The insistence of modern emacs on always unconditionally
> syntax checking everything greatly slows down typing and
> is a major inhibition to quick editing of large source files .

Maybe disabling fontification is enough. You can do it for large
buffers with "font-lock-maximum-size".

Or setting the variable "font-lock-maximum-decoration".

I'm not sure whether this would disable parsing.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-19 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-19 10:54 emacs coding modes need 'Suspend Disbelief' button Jason Vas Dias
2017-05-19 11:20 ` tomas
     [not found]   ` <CALyZvKzvUBe1-+yTnpK97MA=Dh5q89RmTugG3CJ0bcrbqnd2Eg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-05-19 11:37     ` Fwd: " Jason Vas Dias
2017-05-20  7:47       ` Robert Thorpe
2017-05-19 11:42 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-05-19 11:45 ` hector [this message]
2017-05-19 13:35 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-19 16:23 ` Stefan Monnier

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