From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jab3 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Syntax Highlighting Latency in Emacs Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:42:44 -0500 Message-ID: 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 1102816798 26161 80.91.229.6 (12 Dec 2004 01:59:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:59:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 12 02:59:54 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 1CdJ1c-0007YF-00 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 02:59:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CdJBd-0007lt-MD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:10:13 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!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: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 19:42:44 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.58.174.170 Original-X-Trace: sv3-qazDltOzdxJL1Mw2uSJqmaAvhy2QtkImFMNNVZqeg7y2Hd/FPEucA18lCGslqdBkDbxNqfbFfDa3Elv!0z8mAoMC4oOJEpdhD9jHgpIipvTopO7/LRxcensgOXEG07edFHz2Z+B2G0Im6g== 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: 1.3.20 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:127256 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:22686 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22686 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, jab3