I find it sometimes helpful to narrow to a section in large documents. On July 10, 2016, at 3:37 PM, Leo Noordhuizen wrote: Yes. You obviously have ample resources in that area! Op zo 10 jul. 2016 21:05 schreef Sharon Kimble : Leo Noordhuizen writes: > Maybe an (too ?) obvious suggestion: Get more memory ? I'm working on a computer with 16g of ram and 31g of swap, which would be adequate for almost anything I think. At the moment getting more ram isn't a viable option, I have to stick with what I've already got. Thanks Sharon. > > On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 at 16:37 Sharon Kimble wrote: > >     I'm working on an org-mode file about cancer which is 945.1kb, is >     converted to a tex file of 1.0mb and a pdf of 2.0mb with 505 pages. The >     conversion is done through this code snippet '(global-set-key (kbd >     "s-#") 'org-latex-export-to-latex)'. There is no problem with the >     conversion to tex or conversion to pdf. > >     However, the org-mode file is increasingly slowing down and becoming >     difficult to move about within the file, and also enter new information >     within it. > >     How then can I speed it up within the org file please? > -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk Debian 8.4, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 25.0.95