> > > > I just upgraded to a new version of Linux/emacs/org-mode, and am finding > > that fill-paragraph (M-q) runs very slowly in org-mode on large files. > > With about 50k lines in the buffer, fill-paragraph takes around 3 seconds > > even if the paragraph is only a couple lines. (The behavior is correct, > > the problem is just the slowness.) The time seems to scale linearly with > > the number of lines in the buffer as if the whole file is being processed > > during each fill-paragraph. > > Actually, the full section is processed. It can be slow on very large > sections, indeed. Though, you could use a profiler (M-x profiler-start) > to check if something is suspicious. > > Note that Org 8.3+ makes it a lot better with a cache mechanism, but it > is still buggy at the moment. >
I see, thanks! I will insert some section breaks in my file. - Sean
