From: Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Converting from OmniFocus to org-mode
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 09:41:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJYbDa=X6_9dazu3LnwCOki2+pEh4L5wW0n-=S2ryU94nP6FUA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
I'm an avid OmniFocus user and I've been thinking about trying org-mode.
The conversion tool on Worg [1] was inadequate because it didn't
capture whether the repetition in tasks and it didn't handle the notes
field properly for me. I've written a new tool that works directly on
the XML database behind OmniFocus. I specifically ignored completed
tasks, whether something was flagged, and durations, because I don't
use those so I couldn't test them. It is written in Racket [2] and
available here:
https://github.com/jeapostrophe/exp/blob/master/of2org.rkt
However, once I converted my 1.6M OmniFocus database, I got a 252K
org-mode file. Opening this file in org-mode is unbearable. For
example, pressing up after opening the document (and having the cursor
at the end of the buffer) takes 5 seconds to select the last item.
Pressing up again takes 6 seconds. Almost every trivial browsing
operation like this takes 5 seconds. (Except expanding the notes
fields once a sub-tree has been revealed. That's instant.) Finally,
the killer. If I select the last top-level heading and press M-up,
Emacs crashes. A section of the stack trace is at the end of this
email.
I'm happy to send my org-mode file to a developer to try out, but I
don't want to post it online. FWIW, the file is 6738 lines long and
the final heading starts on line 2632, so M-up is moving a significant
number of lines.
I updated to the latest git version of org-mode to see if anything was
faster, but it wasn't.
I find org-mode theoretically appealing, but as it stands, I can't use
it because it isn't scalable enough. Are there any techniques to
getting around this lack of scalability? I'd appreciated any advice.
Best,
Jay
1. https://bitbucket.org/legoscia/of2org/src
2. http://racket-lang.org/
-- The stack trace --
Process: Emacs [5146]
Path: /Users/USER/*/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
Identifier: org.gnu.Emacs
Version: Version 23.3 (9.0)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [176]
Date/Time: 2011-08-05 09:36:46.341 -0600
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7 (11A511)
Report Version: 9
Interval Since Last Report: 201400 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 5
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 231997 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 2
Anonymous UUID: 91A4D920-5BEC-4689-B878-21946C6D436B
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00007fff5fc00000
VM Regions Near 0x7fff5fc00000:
Stack 00007fff5f400000-00007fff5fc00000 [ 8192K]
rw-/rwx SM=COW thread 0
-->
__TEXT 00007fff61e0e000-00007fff61e43000 [ 212K]
r-x/rwx SM=COW /usr/lib/dyld
Application Specific Information:
objc[5146]: garbage collection is OFF
abort() called
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff867cd82a __kill + 10
1 org.gnu.Emacs 0x00000001000901ae fatal_error_signal + 286
2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff84905cfa _sigtramp + 26
3 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff867cdce2 __pthread_kill + 10
4 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff848b37d2 pthread_kill + 95
5 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff848a4a7a abort + 143
6 org.gnu.Emacs 0x000000010016f31c ns_term_shutdown + 44
7 org.gnu.Emacs 0x00000001000901e4 fatal_error_signal + 340
8 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff84905cfa _sigtramp + 26
9 org.gnu.Emacs 0x00000001000281a0 handle_face_prop + 256
10 org.gnu.Emacs 0x0000000100028b0f handle_stop + 127
11 org.gnu.Emacs 0x000000010002e3b1
next_element_from_string + 273
12 org.gnu.Emacs 0x000000010002b2a1
get_next_display_element + 81
13 org.gnu.Emacs 0x000000010002c6e5
move_it_in_display_line_to + 245
14 org.gnu.Emacs 0x000000010002db9e move_it_to + 302
15 org.gnu.Emacs 0x00000001000393c1 move_it_vertically + 65
16 org.gnu.Emacs 0x000000010004ef95 Fwindow_end + 325
17 org.gnu.Emacs 0x00000001001093f1 Ffuncall + 1201
18 org.gnu.Emacs 0x00000001001463be Fbyte_code + 6814
19 org.gnu.Emacs 0x0000000100108e9c funcall_lambda + 588
20 org.gnu.Emacs 0x0000000100109192 Ffuncall + 594
21 org.gnu.Emacs 0x000000010010aade call1 + 30
--
Jay McCarthy <jay@cs.byu.edu>
Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
next reply other threads:[~2011-08-05 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-05 15:41 Jay McCarthy [this message]
2011-08-06 10:35 ` Converting from OmniFocus to org-mode Jambunathan K
2011-08-06 12:48 ` Jay McCarthy
2011-08-15 8:41 ` Bastien
2011-08-06 15:06 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-15 8:42 ` Bastien
2011-08-15 8:37 ` Bastien
2011-08-15 11:32 ` Jay McCarthy
2011-08-15 12:02 ` suvayu ali
2011-08-15 12:09 ` Jay McCarthy
2011-08-15 12:16 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-08-15 12:19 ` Jay McCarthy
2011-08-15 12:50 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-08-15 16:12 ` Jay McCarthy
2011-08-15 16:31 ` suvayu ali
2011-08-15 16:45 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-15 18:22 ` Bastien
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