From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news.teledanmark.no!news.equant.no!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Lisp problems (maybe emacs) Date: 21 Nov 2002 23:23:10 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3246909790346555@naggum.no> References: <87u1ifrsxq.fsf@noetbook.telent.net> <3246865033906081@naggum.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1037920991 12825 129.240.65.5 (21 Nov 2002 23:23:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Nov 2002 23:23:11 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:47363 * Espen Vestre | "Braindamaged font-lock shit"? It is regexp-based and therefore extremely unintelligent and it also does a stupid, trivial syntax-only highlighting. A more literal interpretation of "braindamaged" is hardly possible. Working with crayons like that just looks amazingly retarded to me. I mean, English is harder to get exactly right than any programming language, but do people need (or get) color highlighting of something trivially based on regexp-matching? No. Font- lock mode is a fancy gimmick because it is trivially possible, not because it is actually useful. | And I'd like to see the still- in-use machine that uses a significant | share of its cpu cycles for font-lock-mode! That is not the point. The point is that complaining about the CPU time it takes to do font-locking is more than the CPU time it would take to scan back to the beginning of the buffer to count match parentheses, and if you use the font-lock nonsense, the buffer already has that information pre-computed. So it is an argument against the relative expense of the mechanism that was sacrificed while another very wasteful technology was adopted. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.