Bug#1051544: ding: looking up words is very slow

2023-09-10 Thread Christian Weiske
I got a response from Markus Kohm: The problem is known, but he does not intent to fix it because he does not have enough time. He recommends pdfjam which can do the same task. So I think a5toa4 should be removed.

Bug#1051544: ding: looking up words is very slow

2023-09-09 Thread Christian Weiske
Hello Roland, Thank you for your very kind answer. I installed glimpse, set the search tool to agrep and now have blazing fast results. I'd see this as configuration problem and not as a wishlist item. But a note in the man page would be nice; telling people to install glimpse when searching

Bug#1051544: ding: looking up words is very slow

2023-09-09 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
Hi Christian! Thank you for your bug report. > When starting ding and searching for a word, it takes several seconds to > show the results. This is one of the disadvantages of tre-agrep. You should think about using agrep from the glimpse package instead (ding recommends glimpse (>= 4.18.7-6)

Bug#1051544: ding: looking up words is very slow

2023-09-09 Thread Christian Weiske
Package: ding Version: 1.9-6 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When starting ding and searching for a word, it takes several seconds to show the results. For example when searching for "lupe", the status bar shows > 8 results, 1979ms and this is on an Intel i7-6500U with SSD and no load.