Thanks Joost,
that's interesting! I never used the profiler but I will try and see how far I get with it and then come back here. Gerald. On Mi, Jun 13 2018, Joost Kremers <joostkrem...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13 2018, Eric S Fraga wrote: >> On Wednesday, 13 Jun 2018 at 09:53, Gerald Wildgruber wrote: >>> Switching to text-mode, with 5 windows and follow-mode still being >>> active reduces lag significantly. >>> >>> So there must be an issue specifically with the combination of org-mode >>> and follow-mode! >> >> I don't think there's an issue per se in the sense of bugs. Org does >> much more processing of the text than does text mode so if you have 60k >> worth of text to process each time you type something, it's probably not >> surprising that there is a lag. > > Actually, I would suspect it's more of a problem for follow-mode than > org-mode, because follow-mode needs to keep the different windows in sync. > For this, it adds a function to `post-command-hook', which means it's run > after every key press. > > It's not inconceivable that `follow-mode' does something that is extra > time-consuming in an Org buffer. To find out what that might be, you could > try the Elisp profiler that comes with Emacs. See the section "Profiling" > in the Elisp manual for details. > > Once you've found out which function(s) consume so much time, it might be > possible to ask in here or on emacs-devel what exactly is causing the > problem and whether there's a way around it. -- Dr. Gerald Wildgruber Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte Literaturwissenschaft mit Schwerpunkt Literatur und Wissenschaft Technische Universität Berlin Straße des 17. Juni 135 D-10623 Berlin http://www.philosophie.tu-berlin.de/menue/home/ T. +49 (0)30 314 25924 F. +49 (0)30 314 23107 wildgru...@tu-berlin.de --------------------- Sent with mu4e
