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

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Brown <rendhalver(a)users.sourceforge.net&gt; writes: Peter> Charles G Waldman writes: >> >> We have font-lock, fast-lock, lazy-lock, and lazy-shot, all of which do the >> same thing, with different bugs >> >> Does anybody besides me think that maybe all of these but one should be deprecated? >> >> 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.