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Re: lazy-lock vs. jit-lock


From: rgb
Subject: Re: lazy-lock vs. jit-lock
Date: 29 Dec 2005 07:55:59 -0800
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Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Can anyone comment on the relative advantages of these kinds of
> font-locking?  jit-lock seems to be the default in Emacs 21.4, but I
> fount that in some buffers (not necessarily large ones) whole chunks are
> left unfontified.  Waiting for them to be "stealthily" fontified also
> doesn't help; only font-lock-fontify-buffer does.

You say waiting doesn't help but I wonder how long you waited.
jit-lock-stealth-time defaults to 16 seconds.
I use these settings on my desktop machine with good results.

(setq jit-lock-chunk-size 10000)
(setq jit-lock-stealth-time 0.5)
(setq jit-lock-stealth-load nil)



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