Re: slow bibtex menu access

[Chong Yidong]

> > Have you tried with "emacs -q"? My crystal ball is pretty fuzzy but it
> > mumbled something about you maybe adding an index menu (imenu) to the
> > menu bar and setting imenu-auto-rescan.
> 
> Not bad! With emacs -q normal bibtex menu-bar functionality was restored.
> ...
> and imenu-auto-rescan is nil. I tried disabling the hooks above anyway
> hoping for magic, but clicking the menu-bar while on a large bibtex buffer
> is still getting slower with incresing (line-number-at-pos)

If emacs -q gets rid of the problem, the easiest way to proceed is to
find out which part of your .emacs is to blame. You should comment out
the whole file, then uncomment a few pieces at a time and test again,
trying to spot the point where the problem comes back.