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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmaster@gmail.com>
Cc: Org-Mode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is there a size limit to org files?
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:29:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qf8lgjr.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJb92EyO2fK97unn_zxC5UQK9oDZ1tZaLjnOKZtYPv3EpnmCNQ@mail.gmail.com>


On 2023-09-08, at 18:26, Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmaster@gmail.com> wrote:

> I noticed that an org file I was using for my capture templates was getting
> quite large
> and that my capture templates that were pasting TODO entries in that file
> were starting to exhibit
> strange behavior. Mostly just getting stuck at a mysterious "clipboard
> pasted to level 2 subtree"
> message, then it would just hang there until I hit ctrl g.
>
> Since this file was getting quite big and unwieldy, > 5000 lines, I decided
> to split it up, so that
> the various entries under their headers would be split up into different
> files. I basically just
> put each header into its own separate file, and updated my
> org-capture-templates accordingly.
>
> Since then, no strange behavior, no stalling and hanging for no apparent
> reason.
>
> So, I was wondering if there is hardcoded somewhere in org some kind of
> size limit to the
> files it has to deal with, or is this some limitation arising naturally
> from the size of
> the clipboard? I'm not sure how org handles large files when considering
> how to paste
> entries from capture templates.

It's a /very/ long shot, but I noticed that editing large tables (1000+
lines) can become pretty slow.  Apart from that, I have Org files with
tens of thousands lines and they work pretty well.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-08 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-08 16:26 Is there a size limit to org files? Carlo Tambuatco
2023-09-08 16:52 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-08 17:10   ` Carlo Tambuatco
2023-09-08 17:14     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-09  3:35   ` Max Nikulin
2023-09-08 17:29 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2023-09-08 17:37   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-08 18:37     ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-09-08 18:53       ` Ihor Radchenko

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