Package: emacs;
Reported by: Ed Avis <eda <at> waniasset.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 09:55:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 24.5
Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
From: Ed Avis <eda <at> waniasset.com> To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> Subject: 24.5; isearch highlighting slow - suppress for single space character Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 10:53:21 +0100
Run Emacs in a fairly large terminal, say 200x200 characters. Go to the end of a buffer with some text in it (long enough to fill the screen) and do C-r SPACE. This is an isearch backwards for the space character. If you have highlighting turned on, Emacs then starts highlighting backwards all the space characters in the buffer. But this can be slow, a noticeable few seconds even on a fast machine. (I think it depends on the vagaries of memory management and possibly Lisp compiling, since it's not always quite that bad; a second attempt takes only about half a second. But still it seems a long time.) A small tweak to isearch would suppress the highlighting when what has been typed so far is just a space character. If the user types space and then C-s or C-r again, to indicate that he or she really does want to search for single spaces, then you can highlight at that point of course. 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