Re: Why not enable font lock by default?
Ville Skyttä <scop <at> xemacs.org> writes:
On Friday 06 July 2007, Jason Spiro wrote:
> 2007/7/3, Mike Kupfer <mike.kupfer <at> sun.com>:
> > The one concern that I have about enabling font lock by default is that
> > it can be slow, i.e., when editing large files on relatively slow
> > hardware.
>
> If somebody feels it is too slow for them, they can disable it using
> the drop-down menus or using M-x customize. But the vast majority of
> people would benefit from it.
My late .02€ to the discussion: MHO is that plain vanilla font-lock is too
slow to be enabled by default. [...]
I am used to GNU Emacs and new to XEmacs. I wonder: How slow is plain
font-lock on recent hardware (3 years old or less)? How common is it that
people with such hardware get frustrated and decide to switch away from plain
font-lock?
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