Re: perl mode color highlighting working badly

[Warren L Dodge]

There is a delay in both areas.

At the top of the 5000 line file I type a " char

Wait for a second or so to let the whole file be colorized as a string.

Then remove the " and type CNTL-END quickly to jump to the bottom of the file

There is a slight delay before it jumps to the bottom. I assume this would be
the emacs is frozen type delay. 

Once at the bottom the text is not colorized properly for just a bit then
becomes correct.

The total delay is in the 1-2 seconds area which I consider pretty good for a
large file like this.


>  Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>  From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
>  Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:11:02 -0500
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>  > I applied the patches and tried a few things. Much nicer now.
>  [..]
>  > There are some minor delays (less then 1 or 2 seconds on a 5000 line file)
>  > while it figures things out but everything seems to be colored properly.
>  [...]
>  > There isn't any random places in the file where things are wrong.
>  
>  OK, so it seems to be working correctly.  When you say "delay" do you mean
>  that the text is at first not fontified correctly, or that Emacs stays
>  frozen for a while, working hard?  If the latter, please keep an eye on
>  those delays.  If you could describe typical patterns of usage where those
>  delays are noticeable, there may be ways to optimize those cases.
>  
>  
>          Stefan
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