From: Matthew L Daniel <mdaniel@gmail.com>
To: Mark Carter <alt.mcarter@googlemail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs slow away from office
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:52:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B6C76E2.2070400@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ffa12d91-841d-4dd4-985f-9eb360e57e2e@21g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>
On 2:59 PM, Mark Carter wrote:
> I have a works laptop containing GNU emacs 23.1.1. When I am at the
> office, connected to our office network, emacs works at normal speed.
> When I am at home, emacs takes a long time to load on the same laptop,
> and is often generally unresponsive, with long pauses in its
> operation. This happens consistently on every occasion. All my other
> programs work normally, as expected.
>
> What's going on?
>
While you didn't mention what host OS you were using, it smells like a
recent win32 problem I experienced.
This is the solution that Jason Rumney proposed, and it seems to have
made a major improvement for me:
;;; From: Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
;;; To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
;;; Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:15:12 -0800 (PST)
;;; Subject: Re: occasional pause (or stutter) on win32 emacs 23.0.95
(setq w32-get-true-file-attributes nil)
If you want to read up on it, search the archives for "stutter".
-- /v\atthew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-05 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-04 11:57 Emacs slow away from office Mark Carter
2010-02-04 13:06 ` jberdine
2010-02-04 13:18 ` Mark Carter
2010-02-04 20:52 ` Tim X
2010-02-04 22:08 ` Tyler Smith
[not found] ` <mailman.707.1265321374.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-04 23:07 ` Tim X
2010-02-05 0:59 ` Tyler Smith
2010-02-05 19:52 ` Matthew L Daniel [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.771.1265399536.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-10 10:50 ` Mark Carter
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