From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: emacs is slow while processing a big file
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:39:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <853bgryu68.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: qth21e.3a.ln@acm.acm
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> Saravanan M D <Saravanan.MD@arm.com> wrote on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:55:39
> +0530:
>> I am using emacs-21.3. When i open a big file and navigate through it.
>> It is very slow even to get to the next page. If i open the same file
>> with gvim it is faster. what should i do to speed up this.
>
> Well, you could start by telling us a bit more about the file! What
> "mode" was it loaded in, i.e. was it a text file, a C source file, or
> what? How big was it? Is there anything else noteworthy about the file?
I should not be surprised if he was using font-lock-mode. There is a
reason we did not make it the default for Emacs-21.3.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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2006-04-06 8:02 ` emacs is slow while processing a big file Alan Mackenzie
2006-04-06 8:39 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-04-06 8:53 Saravanan M D
2006-04-06 16:21 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2006-04-06 18:33 ` Reiner Steib
2006-04-06 21:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-07 7:47 ` Reiner Steib
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2006-04-06 4:25 Saravanan M D
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