As always great advice from Jude DaSheill: In Emacs you can set the auto-save-interval SETQ to whatever you want; suggest you increase that number of interval of keystrokes required before an auto-save or maybe just turn off auto-saving altogether--if things start to slow down
If you do try Linux; and everyone should at one point, realize that in Linux you can easily create & mount extra "swap partitions" on your hard drive which can be used in lieu of memory and/or in addition to it, if indeed as you wondered, there may be a bottleneck of memory usage when you try to use OrgMode--adding swap space may help--maybe not, I haven't looked into it recently, don't want to get your hopes up for such a solution In Linux you can also use exotic things like PVM--Parrallel Virtual Memory--i.e. use memory from OTHER machines YMMV In Linux you can also use Emacs OrgMode and/or VLFMode i.e. "Very Large File Mode" and/or use FUSE to meld directory trees together with remote machines & then edit with your best machine, the machine with the largest RAM--with VLFMode in Emacs you can edit files of ANY size (since it only puts in part of the file at a time)--or you could try VLFMode in the first place; please tell me the results if you try that--does it speed up things for you? Does it solve your problem? Strongly suggest splitting up large OrgMode files when things slow down and/or just putting a link to those other files that you may want to use when in your main OrgMode file by using the file protocol: [[file:~/my-OrgMode-file2][File2]] [[file:~/my-OrgMode-file3][File3]] ... Other than that, I'd suggest trying to use CygWin on Windows first if you haven't used CygWin yet, CygWin comes with XWindows & many other things related to Linux that you may be familiar with can be used too--CygWin was donated to the Free Software Communities from Red Hat--many thanks Red Hat! What do Kill Gates' Micro$loth WindBlows users use now to run Emacs & OrgMode?--y'all use CygWin right? Installing CygWin on Windows is quick and easy & then so is installing Emacs and/or OrgMode after that On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 6:19 PM Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> wrote: > Why not use a linux live disk and take the operating system for a spin > without disrupting any of windows? The live cd's allow for trial before > installation. > > > > Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in > defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) > > . > > On Fri, 6 Jan 2023, orzodk wrote: > > > Greg Minshall <minsh...@umich.edu> writes: > > > > > Ypo, > > > > > >> Do you think that if I install a Linux OS, Orgmode would run fast? Any > > >> OS suggestion? > > > > > > it might (*). if it's not too hard to install linux (i have no idea), > you > > > might figure out some sort of benchmark for your org experience, then > > > try switching, see what happens. (there are a lot of variables.) > > > > > > good luck. Greg > > > > > > (*) as a linux enthusiast, and a knee-jerk windows-denier, i want to > > > *believe* it will; that mostly unfounded belief will be of little help > > > to you, though. > > > > I'm in a similar boat, Linux enthusiast, but you're at a point of > > frustration where reinstalling an OS is an option then unless you're > > looking for an execuse to install Linux you might start by reinstalling > > Windows. > > > > If a fresh copy of Windows with years(?) of cruft removed still isn't > > suitable then you might do as Greg suggests and try Linux to see if you > > prefer that experience. > > > > > >
