Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ Please guys, this is a sources-only newsgroup. ]
I posted this reply to the emacs help newsgroup as well. Presumably any further discussion should occur there. >>> Well, why do you think you have to wait? Go on with your work and >>> eventually the *DocView* buffer pops up. (That's much better in the >>> current version now.) > >> The convert process seems very resource hungry as my Powerbook G4 >> slows to a crawl (and is basically unusable) when I'm converting a >> large (2MB) PDF file. On small PDF's, it's still usable (but slow). I >> thought that a batch option would provide an alternative that might >> not be as intrusive. > > Think about it hard: since you can do other things in Emacs in the mean > time, it's already running "in the background". If your G4 becomes > basically unusable, the best guess is that the conversion process uses up > all disk and memory resources, in which case there's not much you can do: > even lowering its CPU-priority will not buy you much responsiveness. I was thinking more in terms of kicking off a process that wasn't tied to the Emacs calling process in any way (at present, there is a process sentinel that notifies the doc-view caller that the conversion has completed) and thus could be either reduced in priority or scheduled for a different time. - Bill _______________________________________________ gnu-emacs-sources mailing list gnu-emacs-sources@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources
