Re: Fontifying foo.cc... buffer too big aborted

Hi, Ben - On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:24 PM, strongdog <ben.livneh(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > On Dec 17 2006, 11:42 am, Vin Shelton <a...(a)xemacs.org&gt; wrote: >> "Alan M. Feldstein" <alan.feldst...(a)computer.org&gt; writes: >> >> > I lived with this problem for large files the whole time that I >> > worked at IBM. Now the problem is back, after I built XEmacs on >> > a new server at Cosmic Horizon. The fact that syntax >> > highlighting works on the same large (7232 lines) C++ source >> > file when opened using another instance of XEmacs running on a >> > workstation at Cosmic Horizon, suggests that XEmacs might be >> > configurable, but how? -- >> >> I think the variable you're looking for is: >> >> `font-lock-maximum-size' (buffer: *Hyper Apropos*, mode: >> Hyper-Apropos) >> >> Customizable user variable: >> >> value: 256000 >> >> *If non-nil, the maximum size for buffers for fontifying. >> Only buffers less than this can be fontified when Font Lock mode >> is turned on. If nil, means size is irrelevant. >> If a list, each element should be a cons pair of the form >> (MAJOR-MODE . SIZE), where MAJOR-MODE is a symbol or t (meaning >> the default). For example: ((c++-mode . 256000) (c-mode . 256000) >> (rmail-mode . 1048576)) means that the maximum size is 250K for >> buffers in `c++-mode' or `c-mode', one megabyte for buffers in >> `rmail-mode', and size is irrelevant otherwise. > Vin, > > Thanks for this information. I wonder how you go about implementing > that change? i.e. in which file, with what syntax...say for example > with Fortran? The easiest way to do this would be to add the line: (setq font-lock-maximum-size 2000000) to your .xemacs/init.el file. To understand more about XEmacs customization, type the following commands into an instance of XEmacs: M-x info<RET> mxemacs<RET> mcustomization<RET> minit file<RET> I've added the XEmacs beta list to the message. If you have any follow-up questions, please make sure you reply to all.