Re: redisplay system of emacs

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:30 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:17 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> Uh, Emacs needs to work without noticeable delays and with syntax
>>> highlighting for documents of _book_ size, easily containing thousands
>>> of pages.
>>
>>
>> Is this necessarily related to the display engine?
>
> Since the Mozilla model renders the whole document (admittedly starting
> before it is completely available), I don't see how it should be
> otherwise.


I am not sure that is the Mozilla model. It is just necessary for web pages.