Re: Cached agenda views?

["François Allisson" <francois@allisson.co>]

Le jeudi 06 sep 2012 à 08:54:04 (-0500), Marcelo de Moraes Serpa a écrit :
> Hi list,
> 
> It's a known fact that the more files you put into the agenda, the more likely
> it is to become slower. I've started using Memacs a few weeks ago, and my
> agenda is still very useable, but significantly slower than before (due to the
> big amount of temporal data being processed from my gmail emails and git logs).
> 
> I was wondering if it would be possible to NOT regenerate the agenda
> everytime. 
> 
> I think this would mean parsing the org files and dumping the elisp objects
> created somehow. This way, when visiting the agenda again, it would be loaded
> from the objects dump and would not go through the parsing of all the agenda
> files again, unless forced by the user; or within a specific time, via a cron
> or internal emacs timer. This would also, in theory, allow the agenda to be
> constantly regenerated in a background worker process.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Marcelo.
> 

Hi Marcello,

Have you tried sticky agendas (`*' to toogle on/off in the org-agenda
menu)? One of its many uses is to *not* regenerate an agenda each time
it is called, but only when the user wants it.

Cheers,

François.