From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, jnorden@tntech.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove obsolete fast-lock and lazy-lock libraries
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 17:02:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y2mm4n07.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr1sf177n.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 10 Aug 2020 00:02:01 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 00:02:01 -0400
> Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, jnorden@tntech.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> >> IMNSHO, that variable should not be a defcustom any more and we
> >> shouldn't encourage users to touch it. IOW we should mark it obsolete.
> > Could you please elaborate on your rationale for this?
>
> AFAIK the only use for it is debugging.
> In non-debugging contexts, font-lock-with-jit-lock should "always" give
> better behavior than font-lock-without-jit-lock.
OK, but why does that mean we should demote it from being a defcustom?
People who need to debug font-lock are also users, and being unable to
change the value through "M-x set-variable" is an annoyance, at least
for me.
Do you see any harm in keeping it as a defcustom?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-10 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.45.1596816008.14576.emacs-devel@gnu.org>
2020-08-09 4:04 ` [PATCH] Remove obsolete fast-lock and lazy-lock libraries Jeff Norden
2020-08-09 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-09 19:21 ` Jeff Norden
2020-08-09 19:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-10 2:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-10 4:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-10 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-08-10 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-11 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-12 18:08 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-12 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-12 18:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-12 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-12 20:25 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-13 13:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-13 14:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-13 15:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-13 14:51 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-13 21:30 ` Jeff Norden
2020-08-14 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-14 13:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-10 11:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-08-10 12:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-10 17:25 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-08-10 22:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-12 19:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-08-11 3:26 ` Richard Stallman
2020-08-11 7:00 ` Jeff Norden
2020-08-09 21:34 ` Jeff Norden
2020-08-10 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-10 16:59 ` Jeff Norden
2020-08-09 16:28 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-09 16:40 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-08-09 20:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-09 20:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-12 18:08 ` Stefan Kangas
[not found] <20200515175844.18941.61355@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <20200515175845.997EC20999@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2020-05-15 18:38 ` Deleting old `:version` from defcustoms (was: master b76cdd0: Delete libraries obsolete since 23.1 and 23.2) Stefan Monnier
2020-05-15 20:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-07 15:42 ` [PATCH] Remove obsolete fast-lock and lazy-lock libraries (was: Re: Deleting old `:version` from defcustoms) Stefan Kangas
2020-08-08 2:19 ` [PATCH] Remove obsolete fast-lock and lazy-lock libraries Stefan Monnier
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