From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jab3 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Syntax Highlighting Latency in Emacs Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:04:32 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1103659780 20406 80.91.229.6 (21 Dec 2004 20:09:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:09:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 21 21:09:35 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CgqK7-0003Y6-00 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:09:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CgqUd-0004II-0e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:20:27 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:04:33 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.58.174.170 Original-X-Trace: sv3-4Hc5dUKmrI8PPfGkJtpWPtMTcrCb1wdoPZFZu/gS+tdUY3FTTYXDgpRMd56Dhr2excGYbtLJf6+xBPa!v1UB/O84DGpLvYOg5XpbyODHhpDXcOGE16kRvWvU8+yi8qy+SOWRDqPb8m0wvg== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.22 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:127456 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22905 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22905 jab3 finally wrote on Sat December 11 2004 08:42 pm: > Hello - > > 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. > Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere? (I'm new to Emacs, and I am > trying to move to it instead of vim for serious editing) Has anyone else > noticed this? > > My system is a P4 2Ghz with 256M RAM. Thanks to everyone for their help. I'm on my way. (I know it's been a while since my post, I've been distracted) :-) -jab3