Re: slow bibtex menu access

[Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de]

Sebastian Luque <sluque@mun.ca> writes:

> On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:19:50 +0100,
> Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
>> What do you want to do when "clicking on any item in my bibtex
>> menu"?
>
> Anything, really, and now I've realized that it doesn't really affect the
> bibtex menu, but any menu. Simply clicking on the menu bar hangs all of
> Emacs for 30-60 s. Last night I realized the time increases according to
> the line the cursor is on (no problems in the first few hundred lines).
> Looks like a memory issue.

That's strange. I never have had any such problem. (My largest bib
file has ~6000 lines.)

> > Anything, really, and now I've realized that it doesn't really affect
> > the bibtex menu, but any menu.
> 
> Sorry, I meant "...*only* affect the bibtex menu, but any menu."
> here

...still strange. I've never noticed anything like that.
 
> Excuse my ignorance, what is CVS Emacs? I've heard the term before, but
> that's about it. 

Take a look at

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/

> OTOH, is that bibtex.el planned for the next regular Emacs
> release? if so, does anybody know when that will happen?

It'll be part of the next release, but I don't know when it will
appear.

Roland