Re: jit lock sit-for provokes redisplay provokes imenu

[Chong Yidong]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

>> This assumes that the patch does indeed solve the original problem
>> (too many imenu updates during redisplay).  I haven't been able to
>> reproduce this problem, but presumably someone can.
>
> Is this change still needed for fixing the original problem if we
> completely eliminate sit-for in jit-lock?

I don't think the jit-lock change will resolve this particular
problem, which is that the text property changes during each jit-lock
fontification leads to excessive imenu updates.

> OTOH, adding buffer-chars-modified-tick in itself (and the change to
> imenu)still seems like a good thing, and I also think the change is
> safe.   But we need updates for lispref and NEWS.

Yep.