Re: Using incremental parsing in Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: arthur miller <address@hidden>
> CC: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>, "address@hidden"
>       <address@hidden>, "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 20:28:43 +0000
> 
> When I said batch-processing I ment processing a file or chunk of buffer 
> (region) just before it is to be
> displayed to a user. Same for other "insertions" from macro expansions or 
> similar. 

Then we always do "batch processing", because the display engine has
no good idea what exactly changed in the buffer.  So it always
processes some minimal chunk of text that it can prove to itself that
the changes were all inside that chunk.

> I also don't think teee-sitter is needed for syntax coloring. Tree-sitter 
> seems to be very expensive regex engine
> in that case. 

They claim to be less expensive than regexp-based coloring, especially
with very long lines.