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- x-gateway: rodan.UU.NET from help-lucid-emacs to alt.lucid-emacs.help; Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:52:58 EST
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:52:05 PST
- Message-ID: <9301290352.AA09112@thalidomide.lucid>
- From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
- Sender: jwz%thalidomide@lucid.com
- Subject: Re: Questions about font_lock.c (buffer-syntactic-context)
- References: <9301290247.AA12078@bing.research.canon.oz.au>
- Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
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- Rod Whitby wrote:
- >
- > If you intend to highlight in the method I (and the current users of
- > tek-highlight) prefer, then I would allocate my spare time to helping
- > achieve that goal with font_lock.c rather than trying to achieve it in
- > a separate lisp package.
-
- I think the style you propose is nicer; you can chalk the current behavior
- up to my tradeoff of speed plus ease of implementation versus prettiness of
- output. So if you make font_lock.c use the style you've described without
- slowing it down, then that would be great.
-
- I think speed is very important, though; this code is too slow as it is,
- and I wouldn't want to see it get any slower.
-
- -- Jamie
-