Once again, I've added some package that makes a 20k-line/1 mg .org file kill Emacs' performance and max out my CPU. Here's my ELPA installed: auctex 11.88.2 installed Integrated environment for *TeX* dash 20141220.1452 installed A modern list library for Emacs epl 20140823.609 installed Emacs Package Library exec-path-from-... 20141212.846 installed Get environment variables such as $PATH from the shell git-commit-mode 20141014.1634 installed Major mode for editing git commit messages git-rebase-mode 20150122.1114 installed Major mode for editing git rebase files gnuplot 20141231.1337 installed drive gnuplot from within emacs gnuplot-mode 20131203.2159 installed Major mode for editing gnuplot scripts graphviz-dot-mode 20140303.1301 installed Mode for the dot-language used by graphviz (att). htmlize 1.39 installed Convert buffer text and decorations to HTML. ido-ubiquitous 20141210.1353 installed Use ido (nearly) everywhere. magit 20150124.930 installed control Git from Emacs ob-sml 0.2 installed org-babel functions for template evaluation org 20150202 installed Outline-based notes management and organizer org-plus-contrib 20150202 installed Outline-based notes management and organizer paredit 20150126.155 installed minor mode for editing parentheses pkg-info 20140610.630 installed Information about packages projectile 20150201.1134 installed Manage and navigate projects in Emacs easily queue 0.1.1 installed Queue data structure s 20140910.334 installed The long lost Emacs string manipulation library. smex 20141210.1422 installed M-x interface with Ido-style fuzzy matching. sml-mode 6.5 installed Major mode for editing (Standard) ML tagedit 20141021.2139 installed Any suspicious-looking stuff there? LB