Slow Fontification That Isn't, and Human Nature #
hacking, April 25th 2011
Yesterday I mentioned Slime and font-lock-verbose.
Turns out I didn't have my story quite right. It isn't fontification that's slow, but displaying the progressing bar of dots. ...which makes the whole thing even sillier.
Now I might have twigged on to this had I stopped to think about why this irritates me on OS X, but not on Linux — the issue is much reduced on the X-server backend, and nonexistent on a terminal Emacs.
It's hard to be rational when you're trying to focus on something and an unrelated issue keeps getting in your way. The last thing you want to think about is the unrelated annoyance.
So, I promise to be patient the next time someone reports a bug and doesn't seem to have spent of single thought on the issue — and hence neglects to mention the tidbits that would have allowed me to diagnose the issue. At least they reported it.