Re: font-latex extremely slow

Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:45:59 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.auc-tex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Reiner Steib (2005-03-23) writes:

> On Wed, Mar 23 2005, Ralf Angeli wrote:
>
>> * Reiner Steib (2005-03-22) writes:
>>
>>> Not much later (font_latex_Emacs-CVS_22.elp in [1]; 21:16), it
>>> became extremely slow.  After inserting a SPC, I had to wait around
>>> 15 seconds until it is displayed. :-/
>>
>> Hm, did it get better after you typed SPC or something else?  
>
> Not at all.  When it happens, Emacs stays unresponsive until I switch
> off font-lock.  By "unresponsive" I mean, that the insertion and
> cursor moves take several seconds until they are visible.

Another idea, because font locking just freaked out for me in
preview.dtx: Do you have a construct in your LaTeX source code which
could be interpreted as an opening tag without a closing one?  A
quotation mark, a guillemet or stuff like (from preview.dtx)
"\item[|[|]"?

-- 
Ralf