Re: [h-e-w] very slow kbd-macro

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> > I've noticed since some pretest for 21 that depending upon what you
> do in
> > the macro it will execute wildly slower (for example, while it is my
> first
> This could explain it. However i tried it: pressing the keys for the
> two
> incremental searches by hand was still faster with the visual
> feedback,
> than calling the macro.... which doesn't  give the visual
> feedback.....
> so less done, and still slower! 

Emacs is still going through most of the motions of the interactive stuff
(like maybe it's still doing the pauses and such that isearch induces)
even though you don't see it.

I would also wonder if you have some type of font-lock enabled in the
buffers you're working on, that can have a HUGE impact. I have some
batch-processing lisp macros that explicitly turn off all buffer
"prettification" during execution because of the speed
difference of file load and modification. Try doing your macro stuff in a
fundamental-mode buffer with font-lock disabled, just for
comparison.

Ciao,
-T