From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23377: 25.0.93; Completion is extremely slow for insert-char Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:24:44 +0300 Message-ID: <837ffjzf7n.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2fd9a9b4-fb49-da6e-f13b-0fce4708159a@cs.ucla.edu> <34cb394c-1a2f-4fe5-8a2f-d26702487aef@default> <571EEA4A.3020105@cs.ucla.edu> <54bd647f-6a22-471e-620b-6ff376e546bb@cs.ucla.edu> <834mao1gja.fsf@gnu.org> <3eee6eff-a99e-7186-bcdd-8508b054b7c6@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1461741990 30233 80.91.229.3 (27 Apr 2016 07:26:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 07:26:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nljlistbox2@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 23377@debbugs.gnu.org To: John Wiegley , Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 27 09:26:14 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1avJrR-0000mX-Qa for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:26:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41357 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1avJrR-0007oY-5r for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 03:26:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33945) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1avJrK-0007eO-8y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 03:26:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1avJrG-0003eN-Ax for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 03:26:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:37012) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1avJrG-0003eE-8l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 03:26:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1avJrG-0004tZ-0B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 03:26:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 07:26:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 23377 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch confirmed Original-Received: via spool by 23377-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B23377.146174191918766 (code B ref 23377); Wed, 27 Apr 2016 07:26:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 23377) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Apr 2016 07:25:19 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49349 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1avJqV-0004sY-Gg for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 03:25:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42789) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1avJqQ-0004sJ-Nb for 23377@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 03:25:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1avJqH-0003Th-EP for 23377@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 03:25:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42269) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1avJqH-0003Td-BQ; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 03:25:01 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2828 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1avJqG-00057O-CE; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 03:25:00 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Tue, 26 Apr 2016 21:19:02 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:116904 Archived-At: > From: John Wiegley > Cc: Paul Eggert , Eli Zaretskii , nljlistbox2@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 23377@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 21:19:02 -0400 > > >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > > > If I type `M-x insert-char TAB' on this machines, that takes 17 seconds to > > complete on this machine. That's kinda unusable. I think the patch should be > > installed, and the default should be nil, and then somebody can figure out > > how to make this feature work in a reasonable manner on GNU/Linux systems > > for Emacs 26. > > So in what contexts is this feature actually a feature? I missed that part. I hope Stefan will be able to answer that, as he introduced the feature a year ago. There was a long discussion at some point of how to facilitate selection of characters to insert, if you don't know their exact name or codepoint, so I presume this feature was supposed to help in that area.