Re: font-latex extremely slow

Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:55:14 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.auc-tex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Reiner Steib (2005-03-22) writes:

> I forgot to mention that I already noticed this several months ago
> (IIRC back in December), but I didn't have time to debug it.  And
> maybe it is triggered by the document.

That's very likely.  I have a 350k document here and don't have any
problems with it.  Maybe profiling some font-lock-* functions helps to
identify the problem.

> I will test some revisions of `font-latex.el'.  Maybe I can identify a
> specific change.  I don't know any details how font-lock works, so
> further hints are very welcome.

There is a description of how font locking works at the start of
font-lock.el.

-- 
Ralf