Re: font-lock-after-change function unbearably slow; Ben change?

Ben> indeed i did change this and i can't see why those calls to Ben> make-extent should have such a slowdown effect. I was afraid of that. Ben> [b] someone broke the redisplay extent optimization code. Can you give me some function names or other ways to localize dangerous changes for `cvs annotate'? I consider this a priority item for the release. Slow font-lock sucks badly for too many people. Ben> but even more to the point, redisplay should not even be Ben> getting called at all. The only thing I can think of off-hand is that Andy has done several "set-yet-another-dirty-flag" fixes for the widget code. Andy? Chris, do you have the progress bar enabled? It may not matter if it's invisible, depending on where those flags are getting set. (NB: Matt Tucker's password buffer bug is a background font-lock problem.) -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."