Re: address@hidden: Re: jit lock sit-for provokes redisplay provokes imenu]

[Kim F. Storm]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> How about this?  It adds jit-lock-pre-stealth-fontify-hook and
>> jit-lock-post-stealth-fontify-hook, which are normal hooks run before
>> and after each chunk of stealth fontification.  Then imenu can use
>> this to avoid menu bar updates resulting from stealth fontification.
>
> This only eliminates one particular source of unwanted updates.  I don't
> think this code is worth the trouble.  At the very least, add it to
> font-lock rather than jit-lock.
> Better yet, introduce a macro `with-buffer-unmodified' like the one used in
> jit-lock, and make it manage a `buffer-really-modified-tick', kind of like
> the buffer-chars-modified-tick.  Then use it in jit-lock/font-lock
> and friends.
>
>
>         Stefan
>
>
> PS: And make sure it also works when nested ;-)

I still vote for installing Martin's buffer-chars-modified-tick

 ... anything else seems to be "too much" or "too little" or "too slow" :-)

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk