Subject: Re: bug#48581: 27.2; Default value of lazy-highlight-buffer-max-at-a-time is too low

From: Augusto Stoffel <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 15:14:16 +0200

On Sat, 22 May 2021 at 15:30, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:

> That was exactly my point: the variable you suggest changing affects
> more than just one use case, and it affects them in ways that in a
> sense contradict one another.
>
> If we want to change the default value, we should find a way of doing
> that without hurting "the other" use case.

What are the other uses cases, and in which way could they be hurt by
`isearch-lazy-highlight-buffer-update' being faster to finish?

Earlier you mentioned highlighting the visible matches.  Note that this
is controlled by a different variable, namely
`lazy-highlight-max-at-a-time' (which, not long ago, was also changed
from its old default of 20, albeit for a different reason).