2007/7/23, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt;: 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 Cheers, Jason -- Jason Spiro: Linux consultant, web developer, Windows corporate trainer. No job too big or too small, whether two hours or two months. Contact me for info; to see my resume, send email with subject line "resume". +1.416.668.1491 / Email: info(a)jspiro.com / MSN: jasonspiro(a)hotmail.com _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta