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One of the complaints^Wrequests that I hear most often on the #emacs channel regarding emacs-wiki is that emphasizing text with '*' characters causes a huge amount of garbage collection and time consumption.

I'm attempting to fix that, and I believe I've succeeded.

I've uploaded emacs-wiki 2.69.90 (Release Candidate 2) to my website at http://mwolson.org/static/dist/emacs-wiki/emacs-wiki-2.69.91rc2.tar.gz. It corresponds with emacs-wiki—main—1.0—patch-81 on my Arch archive.

Please give it a try and tell me whether this helps significantly with the slow highlighting problems, and especially if it introduces any unwanted behavior. The goal is WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) publishing.

Other changes include:

• Avoid highlighting in the middle of a word or URL.
• Underlining with the '_' character can span multiple lines.

If there are any outstanding problems with this release candidate (i.e. bugs that force you to use an earlier version of emacs-wiki), please let me know about them. I want 2.70 to be as stable as possible.

Likewise, if there is emacs-wiki behavior/breakage that is annoying to Planner developers, please feel to send patches my way so that these things can be fixed without need of workarounds in the future.

I've created a document about bug-reporting at http://www.mwolson.org/projects/ReportingEmacsLispBugs.html, which might prove helpful.