Re: Default of jit-lock-stealth-time

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Inaccurate.  First, font-lock was turned off by default in _all_
>> versions of Emacs since its introduction (in v19.x, AFAIR).  More
>> importantly, a large majority of users turned it on,
> I'd like to see some statistics supporting that.  A large majority of
> users does not touch defaults, according to my experience.

My guess is that users who didn't change the default ended up moving to some
other editor, while those who did stick with Emacs ended up turning on
font-lock.  But it doesn't matter.  All that matters is that there is a lot
of experience with font-lock, so it's clear that it wasn't/isn't terribly
badly behaved on average.


        Stefan