From: Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>,
help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: In search for an emacs hacker
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 08:07:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFsi02QXE+utssjNizTgx1d5Bw_PYebkFqWyBCGPYgwzFK3Nhg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875yuqikcd.fsf@zoho.eu>
> > Another major issue is that syntax highlighting becomes
> > makes emacs so slow [...]
>
> It is known as font lock in the Emacs world and it shouldn't
> make Emacs slow, again ask for help or do `emacs-report-bug'
> to get help/hopefully have the issue fixed.
That's a bold statement. Font lock can involve arbitrarily complicated
regular expressions (maybe even arbitrary code?), and depending on the
major mode it can be slow. Typical examples are large latex or org
buffers.
The advice to report occurrences as a bug is sound, but if it's not a
core mode, the bug report should probably be addressed to the relevant
developers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-24 6:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-12 12:54 In search for an emacs hacker Vitus Schäfftlein
2021-09-13 9:24 ` Arash Esbati
2021-09-24 6:00 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-24 6:07 ` Thibaut Verron [this message]
2021-09-24 6:37 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-24 16:50 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-24 17:19 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-24 18:45 ` Drew Adams
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2021-09-12 13:15 Vitus Schäfftlein
2021-09-12 13:01 Vitus Schäfftlein
2021-09-06 15:52 Vitus Schäfftlein
2021-09-06 17:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-06 18:11 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-06 18:30 ` kf
2021-09-06 18:38 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-06 19:09 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-06 19:17 ` Samuel Banya
2021-09-07 2:07 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-07 17:41 ` Samuel Banya
2021-09-24 5:44 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-24 5:42 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-06 19:09 ` Daniel Fleischer
2021-09-06 19:28 ` Eduardo Ochs
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