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From: michal panoch <michal@panoch.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cursor stopping
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:09:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2a93a0z0m.fsf@panoch.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.14948.1417275932.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Eli Zaretskii wrote on 29. Nov. 2014 @ 16:45:

>> From: michal panoch <michal@panoch.net>
>> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 15:58:29 +0100
>> 
>> while "scrolling" in a plaintext file (meaning just holding right arrow)
>> is it normal, that the cursor stops for a little bit after moving approx. 100
>> times?
>> 
>> does it have something to do with auto save or such like?
>> 
>> or is there a way to debug such a behavior?
>
> Could be garbage collection.  Type
>
>   M-x set-variable RET garbage-collection-messages RET t RET
>
> and see if Emacs displays "Garbage collecting...done" in the echo
> area.
>

well. when i turn GC messages on and keep scrolling, the cursor stops 10
times while the GC message appears only 2 times.. if i understand the GC
percentage/threshold variables, this is a correct behavior..

so, still no clue, who is stopping my cursor..

-- 
-mp-


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-29 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-29 14:58 cursor stopping michal panoch
2014-11-29 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.14948.1417275932.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-29 16:09   ` michal panoch [this message]
2014-11-29 20:14     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30  6:56       ` michal panoch
2014-11-30 15:12         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-02 20:41     ` Robert Thorpe

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