Viper-mode too slow on OSX Snow Leopard (custom-compiled cocoa emacs 23.2.1)

Viper-mode too slow on OSX Snow Leopard (custom-compiled cocoa emacs 23.2.1)

[Marcelo de Moraes Serpa]

Hello everyone,

Putting editor wars aside, I've started using VIM (MacVim to be
specific) and after a steep learning curve, as you might expected, I'm
delighted by the efficient way to manipulate the text. However, I
still use emacs a lot and I don't plan on leaving it, since I have
most of my writings (blog post drafts, notes, todo lists (thanks
orgmode!)) there.

I do, however, want to start using only one navigation model, and the
VIM one is the logical choice for me right now. Luckily emacs has
Viper-mode, but when I activate it on emacs 23, it just renders emacs
so slow to point I can't really use it. Each keystroke takes about
600ms to render to screen, and if I start typing fast, it just hangs
and takes a few seconds to show the whole text.

Emacs version: GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.29)
OSX Snow Leopard.

Any ideas of what's going on and how to fix it?

Thanks in advance,

Marcelo.

Re: Viper-mode too slow on OSX Snow Leopard (custom-compiled cocoa emacs 23.2.1)

[Marcelo de Moraes Serpa]

*bump*

No hints ?

Marcelo.

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
<celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Putting editor wars aside, I've started using VIM (MacVim to be
> specific) and after a steep learning curve, as you might expected, I'm
> delighted by the efficient way to manipulate the text. However, I
> still use emacs a lot and I don't plan on leaving it, since I have
> most of my writings (blog post drafts, notes, todo lists (thanks
> orgmode!)) there.
>
> I do, however, want to start using only one navigation model, and the
> VIM one is the logical choice for me right now. Luckily emacs has
> Viper-mode, but when I activate it on emacs 23, it just renders emacs
> so slow to point I can't really use it. Each keystroke takes about
> 600ms to render to screen, and if I start typing fast, it just hangs
> and takes a few seconds to show the whole text.
>
> Emacs version: GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.29)
> OSX Snow Leopard.
>
> Any ideas of what's going on and how to fix it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Marcelo.
>

Re: Viper-mode too slow on OSX Snow Leopard (custom-compiled cocoa emacs 23.2.1)

[Raffaele Ricciardi]

Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:
> *bump*
> 
> No hints ?
> 
> Marcelo.
> 
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
> <celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Putting editor wars aside, I've started using VIM (MacVim to be
>> specific) and after a steep learning curve, as you might expected, I'm
>> delighted by the efficient way to manipulate the text. However, I
>> still use emacs a lot and I don't plan on leaving it, since I have
>> most of my writings (blog post drafts, notes, todo lists (thanks
>> orgmode!)) there.
>>
>> I do, however, want to start using only one navigation model, and the
>> VIM one is the logical choice for me right now. Luckily emacs has
>> Viper-mode, but when I activate it on emacs 23, it just renders emacs
>> so slow to point I can't really use it. Each keystroke takes about
>> 600ms to render to screen, and if I start typing fast, it just hangs
>> and takes a few seconds to show the whole text.
>>
>> Emacs version: GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.29)
>> OSX Snow Leopard.
>>
>> Any ideas of what's going on and how to fix it?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Marcelo.
>>
> 

Have you tried loading just Viper after "emacs -Q"?

Consider also using Vim-mode instead: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/VimMode

To debug the issue you are experiencing, you would need to profile all 
functions involved whenever you press a key, but - AFAIK - currently 
Emacs lacks a call-tree generator.