On 8/2/12, Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> wrote: > It still needs to update the editor view with the correct syntax > highlighting which needs to be done in the same thread as the rest of > the GUI.
It can do that immediately for the text that's visible in the window because ~100 lines of text can be lexed pretty damn instantly. As soon as that's done the GUI should be responsive and the rest of the text buffer should be lexed in the background.