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authorStefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>2020-03-31 12:11:26 -0400
committerStefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>2020-03-31 12:11:26 -0400
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* lisp/dired.el (dired-readin): Improve comment
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;; We used to bind `inhibit-modification-hooks' to try and speed up
;; execution, in particular, to prevent the font-lock hook from running
;; until the directory is all read in.
- ;; I strongly suspect that this was only useful in Emacs<21, because
- ;; jit-lock made it a non-issue.
- ;; Nevertheless, I used `combine-change-calls' which provides the
- ;; same performance advantages, just in case.
+ ;; It's not clear why font-lock would be a significant issue
+ ;; here, but I used `combine-change-calls' which should provide the
+ ;; same performance advantages without the problem of breaking
+ ;; users of after/before-change-functions.
(combine-change-calls (point-min) (point-max)
(let ((inhibit-read-only t)
;; Don't make undo entries for readin.