On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 02:39:02AM -0800, Ed Kostas wrote: > I am helping a lawyer office in (a difficult) trying Vi(m), and have a few > questions. The fact is that Vim seems to be very slow compared to Emacs. Let > me elaborate on that. > > 1 - Lawyers work with long (very long) texts and Latex sources. Basically, an > OCR program transforms every thing they are working with into text. Asterisks > are added automatically by the OCR, that is written in Lisp (or inLab Scheme). > The asterisks control the outline in something lawyers call org-mode. They > use tabs and shift tabs to close the outline, and have a fast overview of the > document.
> It seems that Vim outline did not work as well as Emacs Org-mode. The lawyers > complain that it takes forever to close or open the paragraphs. It does not > have schedules, calendars, deadlines, etc. Latex sources seems to be much > slower in Vim, and often freezes Vim. In fact, I noticed that Vim becomes so > slow that people types faster than Vim deals with the syntax coloring. First > question: How to make Vim faster? This isn't a standard feature of vim. org-mode is my main reason for using emacs at all -- it's where this file format you are using originated and it works much better than the two implementations of org-mode on vim that I have tried. This is one case where you are much better off using emacs instead, especially for use by non-programmers. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
