Mercurial > emacs
changeset 42234:64fa0eed5865
(Font Lock): Mention jit-lock and its customization group.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:00:35 +0000 |
| parents | 50052f8ef824 |
| children | 103ed59cfd30 |
| files | man/display.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/display.texi Fri Dec 21 12:47:12 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/display.texi Fri Dec 21 13:00:35 2001 +0000 @@ -299,6 +299,18 @@ To remove keywords from the font-lock highlighting patterns, use the function @code{font-lock-remove-keywords}. +@cindex just-in-time (JIT) font-lock +@cindex background syntax highlighting + Fontifying large buffers can take a long time. To avoid large +delays when a file is visited, Emacs fontifies only the visible +portion of a buffer. As you scroll through the buffer, each portion +that becomes visible is fontified as soon as it is displayed. The +parts of the buffer that are not displayed are fontified +``stealthily'', in the background, i.e.@: when Emacs is idle. You can +control this background fontification, called @dfn{Just-In-Time}, or +@dfn{JIT} Font Lock, by customizing various options in the +customization group @samp{jit-lock}. @xref{Specific Customization}. + @node Highlight Changes @section Highlight Changes Mode