On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Ville M. Vainio <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Edward K. Ream <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >> Note how you can find stuff like @python_rule21 in the traceback
> >> (which signifies we are doing way too much work).
>
> > directives.  True, recognizing @killcolor is a special case, but it must
> > coexist with all the other special cases.
>
> Yes, it can. It means there is just a very fast way of saying "do not
> do anything!".
>
> > It's hard to believe that this will be substantially faster.
> >
> > Unless I am mistaken, the only way to properly implement @killcolor so
> that
> > it truly is fast is to completely disable the association of
> > QSyntaxHighlighter with the  body text widget.  I haven't found a way to
> do
> > that, iirc, but you shouldn't trust my memory on this.
>
> Just returning from highlightBlock immediately will certainly be fast
> enough (and I think the current implementation should do this?). The
> tracebacks I linked indicated this was not happening.


It's not happening because it's not so easy to make it happen.

recolor already contains commented-out code to do this.  You can try to put
this code back in: I think you will see problems, but I don't recall what
they were.

Edward

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