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Re: is it really worth the time to go from vi to emacs?

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From: Stefan Monnier
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article <4r43ps$k1d@murrow.corp.sgi.com>,
Bruce A. Templeton <brucet@leviathan.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
] Is there any way to combine the fontification methods.  Ideally it would
] startup using on-demand fontification, then fontify the rest of the
] buffer during idle time, and store it in the font info in the
] font-lock-chache file (also during idle time ideally).
] 
] Alternatively, is there a way to specify font-lock for files < x lines
] and lazy-lock for larger files?

You are describing lazy-lock.
I guess you haven't tried it since version 2.0


        Stefan
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From: "Stefan Monnier" <stefan.monnier@lia.di.epfl.ch>
Subject: Re: is it really worth the time to go from vi to emacs?
Date: 1996/07/02
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