Re: inappropriate use of nroff-mode leads to grief

[Robert Marshall <spam@capuchin.co.uk>]

On 04 Sep 2002, monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu wrote:

>>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Marshall <spam@capuchin.co.uk> writes:
>> I use logrotate to compress /var/log files so these are saved as
>> (e.g) syslog.1.gz
> 
> That's unfortunate.  We should try to provide a fix for it.
> 
>>   parse-partial-sexp(1 9649428)
> 
..
> 
> The development version of Emacs improves this by caching the result
> of the scan, so it does large scans as well, but hopefully not too
> often.  (i.e. the first time you jump to the end of the file, it
> will scan the whole file, but after wards it will only rescan
> smaller parts of it).
> 

So it does (emacs from cvs) that's a lot smoother!
Even the first scroll is pretty imperceptible

R
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