Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs?

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
() Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:31:15 +0200

   So because of unnecessary work to set text property to well
   structured data on *all* lines we have slow down instead perform
   parsing of reference on demand.

   [...]

   Or I am something missing?

You have well-structured data but the compilation (likewise, grep)
font-locking tries to cope with a more general input.  You can prune
some elements from ‘compilation-error-regexp-alist’ to help focus the
font-locking.  Have you tried that?