Re: Aborting display. Is this possible?

[Stefan Monnier]

> The whole point of Jit Lock was that we would only need to fontify the
> bits of the buffer currently being displayed.  This was partly so that
> mode maintainers could be a bit more relaxed about the speed of
> font-locking.

Actually, no, the main benefit of jit-lock was so you can open a large
buffer without having to wait too long.

To reduce pressure on font-lock speed, we need something more like
jit-lock-defer-time (and lazy-lock-defer-time before it) which is disabled
by default.


        Stefan