Leo Okawa Ericson writes: > Fontification of long code blocks can be very slow. The patch, which should be > in another other email, mitigates this by > adding an option to delay the fontification after the user has become idle by > using idle timers. This seems to be faster from my limited testing, but I'm > not > sure if something will go horribly wrong because of the timers.
Thanks for the patch. My initial reaction is that I'm not sure about adding an idle timer for a particular aspect of fontification. If we do go this route, I think the case needs to be made why this spot is special, and why we don't expect or would reject follow-up patches for this and that other area. Have you explored whether jit-lock (e.g., jit-lock-defer-time) helps for your use case?
