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Re: new text property
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: new text property |
Date: |
10 Jun 2002 13:29:43 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Informed Management (RC0+)) |
>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Walters <address@hidden> writes:
Colin> Emacs 21.4 will have a new text property `font-lock-face'.
Colin> The rationale for this change is that it easily allows
Colin> "special" modes to have their fontification controlled by
Colin> M-x font-lock-mode, rather than having to set a variable
Colin> like `cvs-highlight', `Info-fontify', or tracking down a
Colin> -face variable and setting it to `default'.
Er, as I understood that thread, the rationale is that font-lock is
too heavy (aka "slow and broken") to be used by modes that just want
some "light-weight" highlighting. Is that not so? Are there other
advantages to not using font-lock to do font-locking?<wink>
I think we should look into allowing all highlighting to be done by
font-lock by making font-lock performance better. I don't mean I
oppose `font-lock-face' as such, but we should be careful to not put
obstacles in the way of a high-performance font-lock (even though it's
vaporware now, several people including Martin Buchholz and Matt
Tucker have made plausible proposals).
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- new text property, Colin Walters, 2002/06/09
- Re: new text property,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: new text property, Miles Bader, 2002/06/10
- Re: new text property, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/06/10
- Re: new text property, Colin Walters, 2002/06/10
- Re: new text property, Stefan Monnier, 2002/06/10
- Re: new text property, Adrian Aichner, 2002/06/10
- Re: new text property, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/06/11
- Re: new text property, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/06/11
Re: new text property, Colin Walters, 2002/06/10
Re: new text property, Hrvoje Niksic, 2002/06/10