bug#25706: 26.0.50; Slow C file fontification

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Martin.

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 10:44:31 +0100, martin rudalics wrote:
>  > There are 342 occurrences of '\\\\([^?]' in CC Mode.  Most of these can
>  > surely be replaced by "\\(?:", but not all, by a long way.  This change
>  > will be fun.

> Years ago I wrote the attached that might help you in this regard (load
> it and do 'turn-on-regexp-lock-mode').  If you move point before the "("
> of a "\\(" it should give you the appropriate nesting.

Thanks!  I'll have a look at it.

> martin

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