From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:43:14 +0100 Message-ID: <85zm6uz625.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85tzxazb8r.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85irdi1mar.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87slcm1haj.fsf@wigwam.brockman.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172936621 30121 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2007 15:43:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 15:43:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Brockman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 03 16:43:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HNWOR-00033k-5h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:43:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HNWOQ-0001ew-L7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:43:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HNWOG-0001er-Cq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:43:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HNWOE-0001ef-2R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:43:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HNWOD-0001ec-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:43:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-07.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.47]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HNWOD-0003WX-EV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:43:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-06-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.18]) by mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E52C424AED5; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 16:43:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (mail-in-07.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.47]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA1FF5C0DD; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 16:43:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-027-182.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.27.182]) by mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB0F4292B65; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 16:43:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id D9B021C460D3; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 16:43:14 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87slcm1haj.fsf@wigwam.brockman.se> (Daniel Brockman's message of "Sat\, 03 Mar 2007 16\:24\:36 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:67260 Archived-At: Daniel Brockman writes: > It would be cool if Emacs could detect whether it's running > on battery power and in that case go easy on the CPU. You are again assuming that Emacs is the only application worth grabbing CPU power. Emacs is intended to be started once and then kept running. If the only way to keep it from hogging the CPU is to exit it, this makes Emacs unsuitable as an editor. Emacs is an editor, an interactive application: the moments where a user finds it acceptable for it to consume CPU are those when she it typing into it. Stealth fontification may be nice as a user option (though I have still to see a single case where its effects are not worse than what it is supposed to cure), but enabling it by default is sheer madness. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum