Re: configuration: how to make emacs re-parse code more quickly

[Peter Lee]

    Michael> What is annoying is this has happened and I type the
    Michael> closing quote, it takes another 3-4 seconds before my
    Michael> code goes back to normal.  Is there any way to configure
    Michael> emacs to detect that closing quote more quickly?  Or
    Michael> else, is there anything I can bind a key to that will
    Michael> manually re-parse the code and determine that the string
    Michael> is terminated?

There are 3 different font lock modes: fast, jit, and lazy.  I'm
guessing you are using lazy.  Do 'M-x customize-group RET font-lock'
and experiment with changing the font-lock-support-mode.  Then have a
look at that particular mode's settings.

You can manually fontify the buffer by doing:
'M-x font-lock-fontify-buffer', and you could bind that to a key if
all else fails.