Prevent computing full document content highlight per block and only compute current block content for performance #246
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Related with napari/napari#6845
Current code computes the full document highlight for each document block/paragraph causing freezes as soon the document content starts to get a little bit long. To reproduce, you can run the
examples/code_highlight.py
, copy and paste the widget text content multiple times (selecting the full content to do a new paste increases the chance to stumble with a freeze in a shorter amount of time). So something like:This PR tries to prevent/improve the situation by only computing the current block content/text highlight data (not sure if there is a better approach so happy to give a check to any other ideas!). Doing a similar check with the example content copy and paste operations with the changes in this PR: