Re: Emacs slow away from office

[Matthew L Daniel <mdaniel@gmail.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