Re: Reducing the number of '*lock|shot*' packages

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Charles G. Waldman stipulated: Fast hardware doesn't help. I use lazy-lock because I use an extremely heavy-duty C and C++ fontification regexp by Chris Holt, and it takes more than half an hour to fontify e.g. `src/eval.c'. I'm not willing to wait half an hour, or to give up good fontification (and this one follows the language grammar quite closely and so fontification looks lovely, with the downside that this makes it *slow*.) Bigger regexps can make the fontification process slower faster than fast hardware can make it faster; we need a lazy locking package to cater for that. (Another (obvious) reason: if you remove one of them, you'll annoy people who're using the one you remove. I thought XEmacs kept old features around in case they were useful, viz extents versus text properties, or the multiple packages to compress and encrypt buffers and mail? ;) ) -- `It's all about bossing computers around. Users have to say "please". Programmers get to say "do what I want NOW or the hard disk gets it".' -- Richard Heathfield on the nature of programming