Re: [PATCH - preliminary] turn off syntax tables

Andy> What confuses me is that the code in question was ported Andy> from Emacs 20.7. Did this change significantly in later Andy> versions? Or is it just that it is incompatible with our Andy> extents? Well, for starters Matt didn't understand the basic buffer structures; Ben had a patch to fix the buffer movement. Second, according to the discussion between Ben and Jan, it appears that the SOE which makes our redisplay relatively fast is pessimized for the kind of usage that the syntax cache makes of extents. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py