From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jude DaShiell Subject: Re: Ways to make org feasible for huge files Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:54:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50393) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REeT2-0004mx-JB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:54:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REeT1-0008PC-2l for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:54:16 -0400 Received: from shellworld.net ([69.60.117.94]:60846 helo=server1.shellworld.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REeT0-0008P5-Sb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:54:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: 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: brian powell Cc: Org Mode , Marcelo de Moraes Serpa Why not working-file and archive-file? Archive-file would be the big file and working-file would be the small file in that scheme. On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, brian powell wrote: > * Maybe EMACS "narrowing" could be used: > http://www.gnu.org/s/libtool/manual/emacs/Narrowing.html > ... > Narrowing can make it easier to concentrate on a single subroutine or > paragraph by eliminating clutter. It can also be used to limit the > range of operation of a replace command or repeating keyboard macro. > ... > C-x n n > Narrow down to between point and mark (narrow-to-region). > C-x n w > Widen to make the entire buffer accessible again (widen). > C-x n p > Narrow down to the current page (narrow-to-page). > C-x n d > Narrow down to the current defun (narrow-to-defun). > > ** I mean: Maybe an OrgMode user could do narrow-to-region (and then > just "render" on the new smaller region) and/or an implementation > something like "org-narrow-to-region" could be coded. > > *** Just an idea--your mileage may vary--it may not work at all--I > hope you try it out and tell how it works for you. > > * I ran into similar problems: I made the file into 2 separate > files--one very large and the other very small that I render a > lot--when it gets big, I just prune out older and less important now > (backburner) subjects, paste them at the bottom of the small file and > then cut and paste the less important "*" sections into the big file. > ** Works great, its really the best way to do it--for backing up and > encrypting reasons and hard drive space reasons etc. > ** Could call them blahfile_now.org and blahfile_later.org (for the > small and large files respectively). > *** Since OrgMode files are plain text files, this works great. > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa > wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I love org and I think there's nothing like it out there, but I'm > > considering using Evernote for reference notes, because my reference.org > > file has grown too big (4234k + lines). This makes the rendering of the file > > way too slow, and 2 times out of 10 emacs crashes because of that. > > Jude If I got a nickel for every message I've already sent supporting Microsoft Windows and its applications I'd have enough to retire on comfortably no matter what the stock market did.