Re: visual-line-mode

[David Reitter]

On 29 Jun 2008, at 09:05, Miles Bader wrote:
> I presume much of the problem is with emacs primitives (vertical- 
> motion
> etc) though.

Yes, because it works fine for me with normal (non-word) wrapping.

>  (1) It seems extremely slow -- moving from line to line is noticeably
>      laggy, and sometimes will just ... hang for a while, even if
>      there's no wrapped lines at all.
>
>  (2) It seems to cons a lot; even just a bit of movement results in
>      frequent pauses to garbage collect (again, this happens even
>      without any wrapped lines).

It's an iterative approach, primarily because we don't have the right  
Emacs primitives.
That said, it's been nice and fast and we've used for standard  
movement commands for a while now.  So I'm not sure what the problem is.