emacs slow with large threads

Brian Sniffen bts at evenmere.org
Tue Jan 22 09:49:14 PST 2019


I think that becomes buffer local when set. Are you sure it me a difference?

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Brian Sniffen

> On Jan 21, 2019, at 7:39 AM, Emilio Francesquini <francesquini at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello there,
> 
> I recently ran into the same (slowness) problem when viewing long threads.
> After some profiling I found out that disabling indentation did the trick for me. In my case it went from unusable (>5 minutes) to ~3 seconds for large threads.
> 
> (setq notmuch-show-indent-content nil)
> 
> Hope it helps.
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 9:07 AM Dan Čermák <dan.cermak at posteo.net> wrote:
>> "Landry, Walter" <wlandry at caltech.edu> writes:
>> 
>> > Dan Čermák <dan.cermak at posteo.net> writes:
>> >
>> >> Hi Landry,
>> >>
>> >> I am afraid this is a common limitation of emacs: if you start opening
>> >> large files (especially with long lines) it becomes very slow.
>> >>
>> >> A viable workaround is to open the offending thread in the tree view
>> >> (bound to 'z' by default) and then only view individual messages.
>> >
>> > Tree view works well [1].  Everything is fast, and I kind of prefer that
>> > view anyway.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Walter Landry
>> >
>> > [1] I have been using notmuch for almost a year, and I did not realize
>> >     that there is a separate tree view.
>> 
>> I have been using notmuch for about two years and iirc didn't realize
>> tree view existed until about half a year ago. Should really have read
>> the manual and all the key bindings at first.
>> 
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