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

Peter> Charles G Waldman writes: Peter> i thought they did things differently ?? Yes. font-lock is the original and rather slow for large buffers (but machines are much faster now). I think fast-lock cached the information in a file somewhere so visiting the file again was fast, but some people don't like random cache files around. Peter> doesnt lazy-* only fontify the visible bit in the buffer ? Yes. I vaguely remember someone saying lazy-lock is deprecated because lazy-shot did everything lazy-lock did and better. At least that's what motivated me to use lazy-shot way back when. My major complaint is that lazy-shot doesn't fontify as well as it used to and now frequently makes mistakes when comment markers (like #| in lisp) don't fit entirely within the window. It seems this happened right after the great syntax modification. Ray