> From: Tomas Nordin <tom...@posteo.net> > Cc: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2019 22:19:37 +0200 > > > If you wait long enough, Emacs should eventually display the HELLO > > file and become responsive again. Does that happen? If not, how long > > have you waited for it? > > It takes 38 seconds.
That's a lot. Did you install many fonts that didn't come with the OS out of the box? I don't know how is the 192 number vs an out-of-the-box system. > After that, other buffers are responsive and the HELLO buffer stay > semi-responsive let's say. From the top and walking down some two > lines a second with C-n goes OK until is start to stumble on this > line first > > East Asia: 你好, 早晨, こんにちは, 안녕하세요 > > and some other lines. Does it help to say M-: (setq inhibit-compacting-font-caches t) RET ? > I couldn't find characters not displayed like that (boxes with hex > code). By installing Symbola I took it to mean go to > https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/symbola, download the zip, copy the > Symbola.ttf file to the windows/fonts directory. Then put a proper > configuration in the init file, like > > (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist > '(font . "DejaVu Sans Mono-10")) > > adjusted for Symbola. But I don't know how to specify it. (I tried with > just "Symbola" and that gave me something non-monospaced). Just install Symbola, you don't need to configure anything else. Emacs already knows about Symbola and will use it if available. > > If you waited for, say, several minutes, and HELLO is still not > > displayed, start by trying this in "emacs -Q". If the problem goes > > away in "emacs -Q", some of your customizations are responsible, and > > you should find them either by reviewing your init files or by > > bisecting them. > > Experimenting with emacs -Q only. > > > It is also possible that you have an awful lot of fonts installed on > > that system, way more than on an average Windows system out of the > > box. On my systems "C-h h" takes between 10 and 20 sec, depending on > > the OS version and the fonts I have installed, but I only installed > > maybe a dozen or so beyond what came with the OS. > > That fonts folder showed something like 192 items. I don't know if its > relevant but (length (x-list-fonts "*")) returned 1988. I have 1708 here, so it's close, and HELLO displays in ~11 sec. Where did you get this Emacs binary? Was it compiled with optimizations?