From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#27350: 25.2; Make `inhibit-compacting-font-caches' customizable Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 10:02:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <750f3b75-e3b0-4953-aae1-5635721f5d62@default> References: <548efd73-7fb5-45ef-979d-59623d31df3b@default> <83fuf43p7m.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497373400 10831 195.159.176.226 (13 Jun 2017 17:03:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:03:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 27350@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 13 19:03:13 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKpDk-0002Ja-Mf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 19:03:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44345 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKpDp-0004qY-Lr for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:03:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53214) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKpDd-0004oi-HZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:03:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKpDa-0003Sk-Eq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:03:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:43495) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKpDa-0003SV-Ak for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:03:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKpDZ-0003Ge-V7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:03:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Drew Adams Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:03:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 27350 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: wontfix Original-Received: via spool by 27350-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B27350.149737334912522 (code B ref 27350); Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:03:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 27350) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Jun 2017 17:02:29 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46172 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKpD3-0003Ft-3h for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:02:29 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:18535) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKpD0-0003EH-QA for 27350@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:02:27 -0400 Original-Received: from userv0021.oracle.com (userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id v5DH2JtT029283 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:02:20 GMT Original-Received: from userv0121.oracle.com (userv0121.oracle.com [156.151.31.72]) by userv0021.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v5DH2JGa014713 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:02:19 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0001.oracle.com (abhmp0001.oracle.com [141.146.116.7]) by userv0121.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.13.8) with ESMTP id v5DH2ILG029486; Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:02:19 GMT In-Reply-To: <83fuf43p7m.fsf@gnu.org> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 12.0.6767.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:133558 Archived-At: > This variable is a "fire escape": it only exists because we were > unable to fix some of the situations where the slow-down happens (in > other cases changing the end-user font configuration fixed the > problem). Ideally, it will some day go away. Making it a defcustom > and documenting it will make removing it harder. I see. In that case, agreed. Perhaps NEWS should characterize it that way, instead of nearly suggesting that it is a user variable: "Set this variable to a non-nil value to speed up display of ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ characters using large fonts, at the price of a larger memory footprint." > So no, I don't think we should do what you suggest, leaky postings on > Stackexchange notwithstanding. (And those postings actually harm the > project, because all such problems should be reported as bugs, > allowing us to investigate as many of these problems as possible, and > hopefully helping us eventually find the culprit. "Solving" them on > Stackexchange avoids bringing more of such problems to our attention.) I'm glad I brought it to your attention, in that case. ;-) You know where to find the person with the problem, if you want more info about that specific case. And you can also consider addressing the referenced "GitHub discussion thread" (I haven't looked at it), either to get further info about specific problems encountered or to let folks there know that you would prefer that they raise an Emacs bug. Both of those references should presumably help you gather info about "as many of these problems as possible".