Public Service Announcement: set font-lock-verbose to nil #
hacking, April 24th 2011
The time it takes Emacs to fontify *slime-compilation* every time I hit C-c C-c has been irritating me for ages. Enough so that I often opt for alternatives such as C-x C-e (which doesn't provide source-location information for later.)
There is a simple fix.
;;; In your .emacs (setq font-lock-verbose nil)
You don't lose anything, except having to wait while Emacs fontifies the damn thing — which doesn't even pop up for C-c C-c.
Smart folks must have known this before, but I'm not that smart. If you were one of us unfortunates, put that in your .emacs and feel the quality of your life improve.
Much kudos for Tobias Rittweiler for the tip.