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> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 14:50:02 +0000
> From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> 	"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> One of the things that interested me the most in that presentation was
> the discussion of syntax highlighting on very long lines. Perhaps it
> couldn’t help Emacs, but it certainly made me think.

Btw, all the examples they show of how "traditional" regexp-based
syntax highlighting doesn't work well, do work well in Emacs.  I guess
it isn't a coincidence that Emacs's highlighting was not shown there.