Re: Why not enable font lock by default?

2007/7/23, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt;: > Jason Spiro writes: > > > How many seconds is the delay for a 100KB or so source file? > > Depends on the mode. CC Mode seems to be the worst, with >5s being > common for a full fontification of a 100KB file. This is unacceptable > especially when starting up with many files in your .emacs.desktop. The people who do use desktop saving are advanced users and can easily disable font-lock themselves. :) But I agree that a even 5-second wait is annoying, despite the benefits that font-lock brings. OK, would one of these alternatives work? 1) always using lazy-lock, or 2) using vanilla font-lock on most files but lazy-lock on large files, or 3) merging some code from GNU Emacs