From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2259431E82 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:11:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 2.438 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.438 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL=2.438] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id gq8AO8yciDdP for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:11:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.xen14.node3324.gplhost.com (gitolite.debian.net [87.98.215.224]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AB5A4431E62 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:11:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remotemail by mx.xen14.node3324.gplhost.com with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YaXy3-0002Yi-P8; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 23:10:39 +0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 25082 invoked by uid 1000); Tue, 24 Mar 2015 23:10:28 -0000 From: David Bremner To: Matthew Lear , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: emacs / vim - time taken to open threads In-Reply-To: <5511DE10.80107@bubblegen.co.uk> References: <5511DE10.80107@bubblegen.co.uk> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.19+86~gbed8b67 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:10:28 -0400 Message-ID: <87384u6lgb.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 23:11:41 -0000 Matthew Lear writes: > > Despite being a vi guy for years, I prefer the emacs interface to > notmuch and really like what it provides. I'm sticking with it but there > is clearly a problem and I'd like to solve it. It's annoying when you > know that something isn't working as well as it should be. > > Is it known that emacs is slower with notmuch or do you think I have > some kind of build / environment problem? Or could it be due to some of > the email content (doubtful) or something else such as encoding etc? My experience is that the emacs interface is faster than the vim one. At least I don't have an examples handy where emacs is slower than the vim interface at rendering a thread. At a wild guess, I suspect it has to do with how many attachments there are, and the emacs UI being overenthusiastic about processing attachements. d