From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs is slow while processing a big file Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:33:43 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Message-ID: References: <4434D707.90306@arm.com> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144352459 28075 80.91.229.2 (6 Apr 2006 19:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 19:40:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 06 21:40:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRaLI-0007s5-1t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRaLH-0007Al-Iu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:40:31 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: mtjf/D:es1T0wHO:&CJ'ZXe"l; 3C--rw\z!{`eFwL){|]RpI+4{u25L=5C /0>KuGeTsk<~<&NE-AKV1560e!+RJeyWmSskkrJm?[vUV#66{T_m|Ae<||Ku#Mk5`y&O`n~z2; n8eP J5#2h@2eQgV@E70IY_0WlEx!"&giy{+\%h1LJox$zv@/l%ZmU4^tZA>xQpnkUBVC5.jpg#0'(+2?Rs )NAr:>3<=WxHE$ktbLysDIM5TbmHu*3 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:34202 Archived-At: On Thu, Apr 06 2006, Rupert Swarbrick wrote: > OK. Well, if you read David Kastrup's answer, he points out that if > font-lock is on, things will be slow. So one question is: "Is font-lock > on?" (that's the pretty syntax-colouring) and "Do I need it?". ,----[ v font-lock-maximum-size RET ] | font-lock-maximum-size is a variable defined in `font-lock.el'. | Its value is 256000 | | Documentation: | *Maximum size of a buffer for buffer fontification. | Only buffers less than this can be fontified when Font Lock mode is turned on. | If nil, means size is irrelevant. | [...] `---- The default in Emacs 21 is 256000 too. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/