From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs is slow while processing a big file Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:39:27 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <853bgryu68.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144312999 13929 80.91.229.2 (6 Apr 2006 08:43:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 08:43:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 06 10:43:18 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRQ57-0003cs-Sw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:43:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FRQ56-0008M3-WF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Apr 2006 04:43:09 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5YSKndIKIav2SDTL/Ou8hoHVLuw= Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 06 Apr 2006 10:39:44 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: e090d026.newsread2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=R=SO]GWIHE649B_U7Ob821Q5U85hF6f; 4jW\KbG]kaM8AV6U:Z=fE=?5MOK`O=R; GD5P List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:34188 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: > Saravanan M D 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