Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi Ihor, > > it never occurred to me that bulk archiving could be sped up by > changing anything about the archive files. i assumed that archiving > worked by appending to those files, so once the initial find-file was > performed, there should be no additional slowness.
Disregarding the initial find-file (which may also be very slow on large archives), the slowness is happening because many org-mode commands are using line-motion functions that respect visibility. Those commands become slow when there are many folded elements (see [1] for technical details why). So, many org commands tend to lag on large archives. The lags can be solved in several ways: 1. Reduce the archive file size 2. Use optimised folding mechanism [1] (this will speed up org-mode in general as well) 3. (untested) Put #+STARTUP: showeverything at the beginning of the archives, so that nothing is going to be folded > i will keep in mind disabling font lock in archive files. any > suggested code for that? Note that it will mostly affect find-file performance. To disable font-lock, you will need to customise font-lock-global-modes, so that it does not auto-start in org-mode. The value should be something like '(not org-mode), but check the current value - you may have other customisation in place. Then, you will need to have a custom org-mode-hook that activates font-lock only when the org file is not the archive file. Something like (defun yant/font-lock-activate-maybe () "Activate font-lock in non-archive org buffers." (when (org-all-archive-files) (font-lock-mode +1))) (add-hook 'org-mode-hook #'yant/font-lock-activate-maybe) > your config is impressively [and for me > dauntingly] comprehensive. the Archiving anchor does not seem to have > a referent. I searched for archiving, but didn't seem to find what > you were probably pointing me to. Sorry, the config is actually not yet formatted for public use. You can search for the code block containing "defun org-archive--compute-location". You will need that code block and the following code block. [1] https://github.com/yantar92/org Best, Ihor
