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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 16:35:22 +0300

> From: Augusto Stoffel <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [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?

The most obvious case is to find the first match and act on that.
Highlighting too many other matches will delay the response to the
next command.