Re: What is the _essential_ difference between lazy-lock and jit-lock?

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Perhaps what is wanted is a command like `(font-lock-tune-font-lock
> > 'low-powered-workstation)' by which users could select from amongst
> > several pre-defined tunings, somewhat analogous to CC Mode's
> > `c-set-style'.
> 
> I think the defaults can be improved to make manual tuning rare.  In most
> cases, it should be possible for Emacs to automatically detect it's using
> too much CPU time and back-off.  The only manual setting that seems
> necessary is "save energy" (or is there some way for Emacs to detect
> whether the computer is running on battery?) which should boild down to
> turning off jit-lock-stealth-time, although it should be done in a more
> obvious way (maybe a global `save-energy' variable which lazy-lock and
> jit-lock and others can use).

There are a couple of add-on battery packages for Emacs:


http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=87ptqrx0ex.fsf%40pine.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=87ae45lhb7.fsf_-_%40tod.codefactory.se

-- 
Kevin Rodgers