bug#3252: 23.0.93; extremely slow to open file on windows network drive

[Chris Withers]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 09:36:11 +0100
> > From: Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk>
> > CC: 3252@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> >
> > > Finally, does "C-x d" of the same directory take the same time as
> > > drag-n-drop?
> > No, the one file I tried took over a minute before I got bored of counting.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand: is "C-x d" faster or slower than
> drag-n-drop?

Slower.

> > I wonder if vc-svn may be the culprit? How can I disable that?
>
> Try setting `vc-handled-backends' to nil.

The gave me the following error on startup:

Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `~/.emacs':

Wrong type argument: symbolp, (RCS CVS SVN SCCS Bzr Git Hg Mtn Arch)

cheers,

Chris

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