From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Converting from OmniFocus to org-mode Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:45:26 -0400 Message-ID: <15275.1313426726@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <87fwl33w9w.fsf@gnu.org> <20110815141628.55442dd5@kuru.homelinux.net> <20110815145010.468ddc61@kuru.homelinux.net> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40233) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt0I6-0004BA-QS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:45:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt0I5-0008Vn-Mn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:45:30 -0400 Received: from g4t0016.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.19]:3520) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt0I5-0008VZ-Hf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:45:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Jay McCarthy of "Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:12:14 MDT." 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: org-mode mailing list , nicholas.dokos@hp.com Jay McCarthy wrote: > This was very useful. I didn't have the problem with the minimal > setup. I then went through my global modes, turning them off until I > found that by turning off global-linum-mode it drastically improved > the performance of org-mode and removed the crash. Great! Now, I'll > try org-mode for realsies. It used to be the case (and probably still is, given your experience above) that linum-mode is expensive: if you can live without it, you'd be much better off. emacs tries to make it possible to go places without having to know line numbers (e.g M-x compile will print out error messages with line numbers but all you have to do is C-x ` to find the next error message *and* get to the source code that caused it). That's generally a better way to go. It's not always possible to do without line numbers (although you can come pretty close), so there is a mode to print out the current line number in the mode line which is not nearly as expensive: line-number-mode. I have that on all the time and I do not notice any performance impact. Nick