>>>>> Ihor Radchenko <[email protected]> writes:
> Colin Baxter <[email protected]> writes:
>> I too would like a means to disable org-persist. I don't doubt it
>> may be useful for those users with "large" org files with
>> multiply src-blocks, etc., etc., but, for me, I have not found
>> any improvement in performance. As remarked by the OP, the
>> feature should not be default-enabled.
> Note that org-persist is not only used to cache parser data for
> large files. For example, exported online images are also cached
> instead of being downloaded on every export. Other things may also
> be cached in future.
> Normally, org-persist stores the data in $XDG_CACHE_HOME. It only
> falls back to .emacs.d when cache directory does not exist. One
> can also customize the value manually.
> That being said, it should not be a big deal to allow disabling
> org-persist when desired. In fact, org-persist is already
> auto-disabled when using emacs -Q. I can add a user switch on top.
When you have time, of course, a disabling switch would be most useful -
in my opinion.
Best wishes,