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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>, <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 20:13:27 -0700
> 
> Uh, where do you see ANYTHING there that supports the claim that "the" reason
> why the variable was _introduced_ in the first place was "to get snappier
> display"?

There's at least a hint in this commentary at the beginning of
font-lock.el:

 ;; Fontification for a particular mode may be available in a number of levels
 ;; of decoration.  The higher the level, the more decoration, but the more time
 ;; it takes to fontify.  See the variable `font-lock-maximum-decoration', and
 ;; also the variable `font-lock-maximum-size'.  Support modes for Font Lock
 ;; mode can be used to speed up Font Lock mode.  See `font-lock-support-mode'.