bug#9209: bidi slowdown

[emacs user]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 05:50:05 -0400
>> From: emacs user <user.emacs@gmail.com>
>> Cc: 9209@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> it seems that c-p is slower than c-f, c-b and c-n, M-v and c-v which
>> are all also slow.  setting bidi-paragraph-direction to left-to-right
>> does seem to fix the problem.
>
> Thanks.
>
> What is the name of the vm summary buffer?  Is that name fixed when vm
> is used?

it is INBOX-summary where INBOX is the inbox file name, so it varies among users

>
> I think bidi-paragraph-direction should be automatically set to
> left-to-right.  The question (being discussed on emacs-devel) is how
> to do that, given that vm is not bundled with Emacs.

perhaps Uday can help...?