Re: [PATCH] Unconditional quit on SIGUSR2

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Daniel Colascione
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 3/28/2011 12:52 PM, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>>
>> But can't that be taken care of by letting font lock run again?
>
> It depends on how fontification is being run.  If we're using jit-lock, then
> I believe we'll try again automatically.  If we're using some other
> approach, then fontification will likely just be canceled until the next
> time that portion of the buffer is modified.  There's also the issue of
> runaway process filters which I believe also run with quit disabled.

Should not all new code use jit-lock for fontification (or the a bit
misname fontification-functions)? Is there a lot of old code in Emacs
not using jit-lock?