On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 4:40 PM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:

> IOW make it so that font-lock:
> - delays refontification after the current line if the end of line is
>   now within a string/comment (and wasn't before).
> - "un-delays" this fontification if the end of line is now outside of any
>   string/comment (but was within it before).
> - of course, with some kind of timeout, but one longer than 0.5s.
>
> Or something like that.


Here's my take on that. Clément/Dmitry if you find the time test this. ..
It should, in principle, reduce "blinking" in all modes (for people who
aren't using electric-pair-mode or something like that). If it doesn't,
I've made some kind of false assumption.

Btw to restart jit-lock-mode in a running emacs, you need to
do sth like this:

(progn
  (jit-lock-mode -1)
  (cancel-timer jit-lock-context-timer)
  (setq jit-lock-context-timer nil)
  (jit-lock-mode 1))

João

diff --git a/lisp/jit-lock.el b/lisp/jit-lock.el
index 48998a81fe..0d7c434f3f 100644
--- a/lisp/jit-lock.el
+++ b/lisp/jit-lock.el
@@ -123,6 +123,15 @@ jit-lock-context-time
   :type '(number :tag "seconds")
   :group 'jit-lock)

+(defcustom jit-lock-multiline-string-grace 2
+  "Like `jit-lock-context-time' but for unterminated multiline strings.
+If the user has just opened an unterminated string at EOL, give
+him/her some grace time before deciding it is a multi-line string
+and fontifying accordingly, do so only if the user stares idle at
+that string for more than this many seconds."
+  :type '(number :tag "seconds")
+  :group 'jit-lock)
+
 (defcustom jit-lock-defer-time nil ;; 0.25
   "Idle time after which deferred fontification should take place.
 If nil, fontification is not deferred.
@@ -232,7 +241,7 @@ jit-lock-mode
       (unless jit-lock-context-timer
         (setq jit-lock-context-timer
               (run-with-idle-timer jit-lock-context-time t
-                                   'jit-lock-context-fontify)))
+                                   (jit--lock-context-timer-function))))
       (setq jit-lock-context-unfontify-pos
             (or jit-lock-context-unfontify-pos (point-max))))

@@ -306,6 +315,44 @@ jit-lock--debug-fontify
                                    pos 'fontified)))))))))
       (setq jit-lock-defer-buffers nil))))

+(defun jit--lock-context-timer-function ()
+  (let (last            ; point marker the last time context timer was run
+        in-s-or-c-p     ; t if in string or comment that time around
+        grace-timer  ; idle timer for fontifying unterminated s-or-c, or
nil
+        )
+    (lambda ()
+      (let ((point (point-marker))
+            (new-in-s-or-c-p
+             (nth 8 (save-excursion (syntax-ppss (line-end-position))))))
+        (if (and jit-lock-multiline-string-grace
+                 last
+                 (eq (marker-buffer last) (current-buffer))
+                 (eq (line-number-at-pos last) (line-number-at-pos)))
+            (cond ((and (null in-s-or-c-p) new-in-s-or-c-p (null
grace-timer))
+                   (setq grace-timer
+                         (run-with-idle-timer
jit-lock-multiline-string-grace nil
+                                              (lambda ()
+                                                (jit-lock-context-fontify)
+                                                (setq grace-timer nil)))))
+                  ((and in-s-or-c-p
+                        (null new-in-s-or-c-p)
+                        grace-timer)
+                   (cancel-timer grace-timer)
+                   (setq grace-timer nil))
+                  (t
+                   ;; no state change, leave everything as it was
+                   ))
+          ;; left the line somehow or customized feature away: cancel
+          ;; everything, resume normal operation.
+          (when grace-timer
+            (cancel-timer grace-timer)
+            (setq grace-timer nil)))
+        ;; proceed as usual, unless grace-timer is counting
+        (unless grace-timer
+          (jit-lock-context-fontify))
+        (setq last point in-s-or-c-p new-in-s-or-c-p)))))
+
+
 (defun jit-lock-register (fun &optional contextual)
   "Register FUN as a fontification function to be called in this buffer.
 FUN will be called with two arguments START and END indicating the region