Re: font-lock-maximum-decoration should be 2 by default?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Vitalie Spinu <address@hidden>
> Cc: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:49:04 +0200
> 
>   > Yes, Emacs Dev concluded after many years that `t' is the most appropriate
>   > default value.
> 
> Interesting. I am curious of reasons for that.

Performance.  You don't gain much by omitting some fontifications
nowadays.  The variable was introduced to get snappier redisplay;
since the need for that is no longer valid, the default was set to t.