From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: AlFire Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: slow find-file for network file systems and very deep directories Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:25:03 -0700 Message-ID: <48CB247F.8030504@ggmail.com> References: <48C9DA7A.8050900@ggmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221277526 27914 80.91.229.12 (13 Sep 2008 03:45:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:45:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 13 05:46:22 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KeM5T-0001j0-9v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:46:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46389 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KeM4S-0007j2-OS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:45:16 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: individual.net mqI4YTL9Clm4FpJ9Ur1Bcwpecsag4QqLvWdfU45Bt/fDDM4Kxq Cancel-Lock: sha1:BMpR8Zf6saPVnbMCNd/dQ/m0y0M= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162162 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:44:56 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57507 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: AlFire >> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:56:58 -0700 >> >> this is a situation: I access samba based file system from Windows. It >> is not rocket fast but neither pig slow. I noted the find-file takes >> veeeery long (15 seconds) time to complete. Another factor is that the >> file is quite deep in the directory structure namely: >> >> W:\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\dir5\dir6\dir7\dir8\dir9\dirA\dirB\dirC\file.c > > Which version of Emacs is that? 22.2.1 > > Also, did you type the above long file name literally, or did you use > TAB-completion somewhere along the way? If the latter, please tell > _exactly_ what you typed, character by character (C-h l should help > you gathering this info). > no tab completion involved - provided the full path to the find-file and hit . In addition drag-and-drop as well as the reading the file during the desktop-load is slow as well. Andy