Re: font-lock has become far too slow

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: John Wiegley <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:44:36 -0700
> 
> It looks like it's more than just font-lock.

Does it happen in "emacs -q --no-site-file"?

> With font-lock off, if I hold down C-p to move up in the buffer,
> drawing new pages takes up to a full second (subjective).  And
> typing past the end of a line has a hard time keeping up with my
> typing.

How exactly did you turn off font-lock?

The package elp.el should allow you to profile Emacs on the Lisp
level, so you could see what takes so long to redraw the screen.