Re: Unfreezing the display during auto-repeated scrolling. Simpler approach.

[Tassilo Horn]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Alan,

> Just a short summary of this change: introduce a new user option, off
> by default, which suppresses fontification (by binding
> fontification-functions to nil) when the user scrolls by whole
> screens.

Just as a data point: i think I'd have a use for such a feature even
with a pretty recent machine.

But I've applied your patch and run "make", fired up a new emacs and set
`use-default-face-for-fast-scrolling' to t, then found a large file and
pressed and held `C-v'.  I couldn't see any difference compared to not
having the option enabled.  All the text that's passing by is still
fontified and scrolling doesn't seem faster.

I've tried with C files and the persistency files of my working group's
graph database (which would be my primer use-case for that feature).

Bye,
Tassilo