Re: [O] Ways to make org feasible for huge files

[Jude DaShiell]

If org-mode runs into that kind of problem one way might be when a new 
.org file is made it has a chained from [main.org] statement in the top. 
 If the file remains small enough that's all it would get.  If the file 
is going to go beyond x lines in length, then a chained to [file.org] 
would end that first file and file.org would then open up if a user went 
beyond the chained to statement in the first file.  The file file.org 
would have a chained from [firstfile.org] somewhere in the top of the 
file and names for files ought to be selectable by the users.  This will 
only work where good garbage collection happens, and something like it 
was used on CP/M systems with t-maker back before I.B.M. made its first 
PC.

On Fri, 14 Oct 2011, Scott Jaderholm wrote:

> Btw I get that behavior in emacs 23.1 too
> Scott
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Tassilo Horn <address@hidden>wrote:
> 
> > Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > Hi Marcelo,
> >
> > > 4328, exactly the same amount of lines I have in the file.
> >
> > Didn't you say that you have 4000 *k* lines?
> >
> > Anyway, as Scott mentiones, in emacs 24 the linum packages seems to be
> > more clever and only creates overlays for the visible area of a buffer.
> > For example, when opening a file with 1000 lines and enabling
> > linum-mode, I only have 35 overlays, because only 35 lines are visible
> > at a time.
> >
> > Bye,
> > Tassilo
> >
> > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Tassilo Horn <address@hidden
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > >> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <address@hidden> writes:
> > >>
> > >> > Wow.. this worked Torsten. Thank you. I wonder why this happens...
> > >>
> > >> linum-mode works with overlays to embed the numbers at the beginnig of
> > >> lines.  Overlays are very flexible but not too efficient, you don't want
> > >> to have too many of them.  Looking at linum.el, it seems it already does
> > >> pooling of overlays in order not to create one overlay for any line, but
> > >> I'm not sure.  Could you please do
> > >>
> > >>  M-: (length linum-overlays) RET
> > >>
> > >> in that large org file with linum-mode enabled and say what it returns
> > >> to satisfy my curiosity?
> > >>
> > >> Bye,
> > >> Tassilo
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> >
> 

Jude <address@hidden>
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