From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastien Subject: Re: Converting from OmniFocus to org-mode Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:41:11 +0200 Message-ID: <87bovr3w48.fsf@gnu.org> References: <81d3gibzei.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52347) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qssin-0000GY-GG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:40:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qssim-00006e-Fa for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:40:33 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:42246) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qssim-00006Y-BC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:40:32 -0400 Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so3901342wyi.0 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 01:40:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Jay McCarthy's message of "Sat, 6 Aug 2011 06:48:19 -0600") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jay McCarthy Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Jambunathan K Hi Jay, Jay McCarthy writes: >> It is worth disabling font-lock in Org buffers. I am not sure whether >> that would prevent you from making use of any of the Org features. > > I don't want to use it that way, but I can check if it speeds it > up.... and it doesn't make any appreciable difference on the speed and > the crash still happens. Slowliness often comes from using many text overlays, which are used fondamentally by outline-mode, the mode org-mode is derived from. Turning off font-lock will not do anything about the problem you're reporting. Please bear with us and Emacs developers while we are improving things is this area, this is quite a common request and should be a priority. Best, -- Bastien