From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Syntax Highlighting Latency in Emacs
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:42:22 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvfb5vkgt.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5589.1102940728.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> I don't want to start a war or anything (because it probably has something
>> to do with my system), but I am curious about something I've noticed with
>> Emacs as compared with vim. If I'm looking at a source code file in vim,
>> (and it doesn't even have to be that large - maybe a few thousand K) the
>> syntax highlighting is automatic. And if I edit something, which changes
>> the highlighting of the rest of the file, it is instantaneous. But in
>> Emacs, there is a 2 or 3 second delay in the updating of the highlighting.
> I think Emacs now uses jit-lock as the font-lock-support-mode. This
> exhibits the symptoms you're mentioning.
It's indeed the jit-lock-stealth-time delay. In Emacs-CVS this delay has
been separated from the stealth font-locking and can be made
"instantaneous".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-13 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-12 1:42 Syntax Highlighting Latency in Emacs jab3
2004-12-12 13:13 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-12-12 13:22 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.5367.1102858474.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-12-12 22:23 ` jab3
2004-12-21 18:38 ` Peter Lee
2004-12-21 20:03 ` jab3
2004-12-22 21:55 ` Peter Lee
2004-12-23 0:18 ` jab3
2004-12-27 17:09 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-12-13 9:35 ` Pierre-Charles David
2004-12-13 12:08 ` Kai Grossjohann
[not found] ` <mailman.5589.1102940728.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-12-13 23:42 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2004-12-21 20:04 ` jab3
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