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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>

Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:01:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #787 received at 56682 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 56682 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, gregory <at> heytings.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: Re: bug#56682: Fix the long lines font locking related slowdowns
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2022 16:36:05 -0400

> What do you mean by "accidentally" in this context?  A program rarely
> does anything "accidentally", it almost always does what the
> programmer wanted it to do.

I mean that currently font-lock just blindly widens all the time, so we
should fix it so it only widens when it's expected to (i.e. not when
the widening is installed by the LLT code).


        Stefan
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