Re: Slow/poor responsiveness in org files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mathieu Boespflug <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:22:26 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> I have experienced precisely the same behaviour in some of my org files. Here 
> is
> a link to a large (redacted) org file that exhibits this problem:
> 
> http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~mboes/test.org

Thanks, I will take a look.

> With latest emacs 24, reading this file in org-mode is noticeably slower than 
> in
> org-mode, even when all trees are folded. However that's behaviour I don't see
> with emacs -Q.

Can you try to find the customization(s) in your .emacs that cause the
slowdown not observed in "emacs -Q"?

> >  . Does setting bidi-paragraph-direction to `left-to-right' eliminate
> >    the slowdown?
> 
> Yes.

I will propose to Org mode developers a change to set
bidi-paragraph-direction automatically on all Org buffers.