Re: emacs hangs in jit-lock

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> I motion to change the default of jit-lock-stealth-time to nil.
>> A non-nil setting may be useful for some situations, but nil is safer and
>> more desirable for laptop use which is becoming the more prevalent
>> machines nowadays.

> I doubt that setting `jit-lock-stealth-time' to nil would solve problems
> reported as

It will fix a few problems (typically of the sort "Emacs takes 100% cpu
time"), but I agree that it won't really fix the mentioned problems.
Instead it will make them appear less often and more deterministically.
That's still good in my book.


        Stefan