On Friday, January 18, 2002 at 13:42:27, Alex Schroeder wrote: [...] > Heh. I can't remember contributing any towards it, I assume you meant > somebody else. I have something to discuss, though: The "Extents > vs. Overlays unhappiness" and the slow display of many overlapping > overlays in Emacs. All of this would be solved, if we rewrote the > code such that Text Properties get used. Here's what this would do:
AFAIK the display code does not use any overlays, just the gui stuff. And from testing I would say the fortifying takes just 15% of the time that formatting requires. > What do you think? Currently I don't suffer personally (I have 314 > entries and it takes about 3 seconds to display all of them). About 6s for 1900 records on my Sun Ultar 5. > Before > starting to work on this, therefore, I'd like to hear from people that > really suffer from this. I understand that it is meaningless to > actually display hundreds of addresses, but if I remember my > Emacsology correctly, you cannot interrupt Emacs during redisplay, > thus C-g has no effect. But you can interrupt BBDB during formatting which results in a "corrupt" *BBDB* buffer. Robert _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
