From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why emacs rendering is slow when encountering long lines?
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 19:07:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83iowskjt1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <icr4bglz68.fsf@home.home>
> From: Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net>
> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 11:50:07 -0400
>
> I just opened /usr/bin/ls. It has pretty long lines.
> It also scrolls pretty fast in both directions.
That's because /usr/bin/ls is a binary file, so Emacs automatically
visits it literally (i.e. with "no-conversions"). Many display
features are turned off in buffers that visit files literally.
> I think you need to provide more information, including emacs version
> and the mode that emacs goes into.
> Also see if the problem is still there when you start with emacs -Q.
Indeed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-20 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-20 5:00 Why emacs rendering is slow when encountering long lines? Jiaxin Cao
2013-10-20 10:25 ` Jiaxin Cao
2013-10-20 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-20 15:50 ` Dan Espen
2013-10-20 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-10-20 16:09 ` Allan Streib
[not found] ` <mailman.4348.1382285387.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-21 2:08 ` Jiaxin Cao
2013-10-21 3:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-21 14:39 ` Jules Colding
2013-10-21 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-21 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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