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Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:37:11 +0900 |
Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> writes:
>> Note: diagnostic messages in js2-mode are highlighted using overlays.
>> I tried using overlays for all highlighting but it was unacceptably
>> slow and had a tendency to crash Emacs.
>
> I've had the same thought. Just as in aside, overlays seem like a much
> better conceptual fit for fontification than text properties do.
Why?
[Aside from the "changing text-properties affect buffer-modified status"
silliness, which I think is probably a mistake, but that's easy enough
to work around.]
-miles
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- "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, (continued)
- "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Daniel Colascione, 2009/08/10
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/10
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, David Engster, 2009/08/10
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/10
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Eric M. Ludlam, 2009/08/10
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/10
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Eric M. Ludlam, 2009/08/10
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Steve Yegge, 2009/08/11
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Miles Bader, 2009/08/11
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Daniel Colascione, 2009/08/11
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/11
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Daniel Colascione, 2009/08/11
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Daniel Colascione, 2009/08/11
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/11
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Miles Bader, 2009/08/11
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/08/11
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/11
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/08/11
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/11
- Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth, Miles Bader, 2009/08/11