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From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
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>> The agenda is wonderful for other stuff, but for me it is
>> not an editing mode per se.  I have never been able to use
>> the agenda for full control over the org file, as some
>> people are able to do.  For me (at least on my computer) it
>> is slow.
>
> What is "slow".  Maybe we can improve things?

The agenda could use cached values for agenda files whose
last update time is earlier than the last agenda scan.

That could lead to significant speedups for people who have
several agenda files.

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