Hi Jay, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccar...@gmail.com> writes:
>> It is worth disabling font-lock in Org buffers. I am not sure whether >> that would prevent you from making use of any of the Org features. > > I don't want to use it that way, but I can check if it speeds it > up.... and it doesn't make any appreciable difference on the speed and > the crash still happens. Slowliness often comes from using many text overlays, which are used fondamentally by outline-mode, the mode org-mode is derived from. Turning off font-lock will not do anything about the problem you're reporting. Please bear with us and Emacs developers while we are improving things is this area, this is quite a common request and should be a priority. Best, -- Bastien