GNU bug report logs - #56682
Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns

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Message #1711 received at 56682 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 56682 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#56682: Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:02:14 +0000

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>
> And I don't think it's something you should be ashamed of: it's standard 
> practice to use expedient solutions for want of anything better.  It's 
> how we make progress.
>
> Those expedient solutions (i.e. those cheap solutions that still cover 
> most cases tolerably) might be "not ideal" but finding them is usually 
> not easy, so pride would be more appropriate.
>

I'm neither ashamed nor proud, I'm not Kim Kardashian 😉  I just try to 
have fun, for the programmer-specific value of "fun".  Still, I cannot see 
how an editor could provide a complete editing experience in all buffers 
without limiting in one way or another what is done, and what can be done, 
after each editing command.

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