Re: How to speed up ido?

[Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>]

Andreas Politz wrote:
> Andreas Politz wrote:
>> Seweryn Kokot wrote:
>>> Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> senny wrote:
>>>>> Hey there
>>>>>
>>>>> I wrote a function to open any file in my project using ido. The
>>>>> Problem is, that the project has a lot of files and a deeply nested
>>>>> directory structure. When i then complete the file name in ido using
>>>>> fuzzy-matching it is extremely slow and unusable. Is there a way to
>>>>> increase the speed of ido? or should i take another approach to this
>>>>> problem? I am currently using the method "ido-completing-read".
>>>>>
>>>>> regards,
>>>>> Senny
>>>>
>>>> A while ago I wrote a mode called ido-hacks. As the name
>>>> suggests it contains a couple of more or less dirty
>>>> modifications to ido, among them :
>>>>
>>>> * faster display of prospect (streamlined one loop)
>>>> * caching of already computed flex-matches
>>>> * use ido for every completing-read call
>>>>
>>>> If you're interested I could mail/post it and you could maybe
>>>> extract the optimization parts (It's one advice and one redefinition.)
>>>> Btw, I am using it all the time.
>>>>
>>>> -ap
>>>
>>> Could you please send it here? I think there are more people
>>> interested in it!
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> I attached it to this mail. Compiling is suggested. Load and enable it 
>> like this:
>>
>> (ido-mode 1)
>> (ido-hacks-mode 1)
>>
>>
>> -ap
> 
> I have send the wrong version....
> 
> -ap

Since noone seems to be able to receive the attached file, I have put it
on the web :

http://www0.fh-trier.de/~politza/emacs/ido-hacks.el.gz

-ap