From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Slowdown Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:34:54 +0000 Message-ID: <87oanqe029.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> References: <87pp8i75nk.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87lhj2qwfo.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87r3sp6uga.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87wq2g51iy.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87h9tifq9e.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <874mpifl63.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426696521 24033 80.91.229.3 (18 Mar 2015 16:35:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:35:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 18 17:35:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1YYGwC-0003qN-0x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 17:35:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34748 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYGwB-0008Fg-3V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:35:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59196) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYGvr-0008Cv-PY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:35:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYGvo-0003cF-Ho for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:34:59 -0400 Original-Received: from cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.12]:46304) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYGvo-0003aW-Co for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:34:56 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129] helo=smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk) by cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1YYGvm-0000Ua-B5; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:34:54 +0000 Original-Received: from jangai.ncl.ac.uk ([10.66.67.223] helo=localhost) by smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1YYGvm-0002GP-AH; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:34:54 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:53:25 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.90 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103201 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>> When Emacs feels slow, what happens if you keep typing without waiting >>> for Emacs's response? >> It catches up eventually. > > Hmm... so providing input doesn't actually "wake it up": sometimes, > I introduced bugs which caused Emacs to redisplay just before the next > command rather than right after a command, which made it look like > Emacs was terribly slow, even tho it was just that the screen update > was happening at the wrong time. > But It looks like your situation is not one of those. I think not. I'm trying out with older versions of Emacs to see whether the problem is recent. Phil