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From: "Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: cperl-mode "fatigue"
Date: 29 Oct 2002 11:08:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ld6ptz0r8.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: apkei9$j2q$1@reader1.panix.com

>>>>> "Da" == Da Witch <heather710101@yahoo.com> writes:
> I've noticed that sometimes, especially after I have been editing a
> buffer for a long time, or if I try to use "qw( ... )", cperl-mode
> begins to show signs of "fatigue" (for lack of a better word).  For
> example, syntax-based highlighting stops, and everything I type
> appears in the default foreground text color; or else everything
> appears in the color reserved for quoted strings.

It's probably a bug in CPerl which raises a signal during font-locking
and which in turn turns off on-the-fly fontification.
Upgrading cperl-mode might/should fix it.


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-29 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-28 22:43 cperl-mode "fatigue" Da Witch
2002-10-28 23:58 ` Matt Armstrong
2002-10-29  8:51 ` Klaus Zeitler
2002-10-29 13:31   ` Da Witch
     [not found]     ` <heather710101@yahoo.com>
2002-10-29 13:51       ` Peter S Galbraith
2002-10-29 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com> [this message]
2002-10-29 21:57   ` Ilya Zakharevich
2002-10-30 16:08     ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>

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