[Orgmode] Re: moving in the agenda view is slow

[Markus Heller]

Martin Stemplinger <address@hidden> writes:

> Hallo Rainer Stengele,
>
> am 26.11.2010 schriebst Du:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am struggling more and more with slowness in my agenda view.
>> Moving from line to line with n and p is slow.
>> Pressing the n key for 2 seconds will result in the cursor not following 
>> every keypress
>> but jumping down after 2 or 3 seconds.
>>
>> I switched off all minor modes and found no improvements.
>> What is the agenda doing when I am moving from item to item?
>> Follow-mode is off.
>>
>> I use about 10 org files with a total of 35.000 lines.
>> The slowness is true for customized agenda views as well as for default ones 
>> like "C-a t"
>> (List of all todo entries).
>>
>> GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2009-11-04 on LENNART-69DE564 
>> (patched)
>> Org-mode version 7.3 (release_7.3.157.ga98a)
>>
>> Rainer
>
> Maybe it's something completely different but I found org-mode to be
> ridicilous slow when the org-files were under git version control. No
> idea when this started and why it happened.  

I've had a similar issue.  Somebody here suggested to put the line below
in my .emacs, which helped.  But beware, this disables the vc backend of
emacs completely, so you'll have to run git manually.

Here is the line:

;; no vc-git
(setq vc-handled-backends nil)


HTH
Markus