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Re: emacs is slow while processing a big file


From: Reiner Steib
Subject: Re: emacs is slow while processing a big file
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:33:43 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Thu, Apr 06 2006, Rupert Swarbrick wrote:

> OK. Well, if you read David Kastrup's answer, he points out that if
> font-lock is on, things will be slow. So one question is: "Is font-lock
> on?" (that's the pretty syntax-colouring) and "Do I need it?".

,----[ <f1> v font-lock-maximum-size RET ]
| font-lock-maximum-size is a variable defined in `font-lock.el'.
| Its value is 256000
| 
| Documentation:
| *Maximum size of a buffer for buffer fontification.
| Only buffers less than this can be fontified when Font Lock mode is turned on.
| If nil, means size is irrelevant.
| [...]
`----

The default in Emacs 21 is 256000 too.

Bye, Reiner.
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