Priority cookies are always in a headline.
The attached patch speeds up fontification of a 1k lines buffer by 0.1
second.
Note that the variable org-priority-regexp can't be modified since
it is used in the agenda and in org-get-priority.
Regards,
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Sébastien Miquel
>From a348a3834b79608a20bfd4e28815ae3995c7eb5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?S=C3=A9bastien=20Miquel?= <sebastien.miq...@posteo.eu>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 18:02:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] org.el (org-font-lock-add-priority-faces): Speed up regexp
* org.el (org-font-lock-add-priority-faces): Speed up regexp.
Only fontify priority cookies in headlines.
TINYCHANGE
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lisp/org.el | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index 00596564f..8c976213d 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -5855,7 +5855,7 @@ If TAG is a number, get the corresponding match group."
(defun org-font-lock-add-priority-faces (limit)
"Add the special priority faces."
- (while (re-search-forward org-priority-regexp limit t)
+ (while (re-search-forward (concat "^\\*+" org-priority-regexp) limit t)
(let ((beg (match-beginning 1))
(end (1+ (match-end 2))))
(add-face-text-property
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2.30.1
