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Re: slowness scrolling in *Help* windows
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: slowness scrolling in *Help* windows |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:05:11 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.93 (gnu/linux) |
"Perry E. Metzger" <address@hidden> writes:
> I've been noticing that sometimes scrolling in *Help* gets very, very
> slow sometimes. Typical case: C-h s (that is, view the syntax table),
> and scroll through it, and it can take seconds for the screen to do
> something after C-v
Emacs needs to look up the fonts for the characters in the buffer. That
can take some time depending on the number of installed fonts.
> It is possible this is only happening if there are loads of "unusual"
> Unicode characters in the buffer in question. I don't have any good
> very long files of lots of Unicode characters to check if it is
> happening on all buffers, or just *Help* buffers.
It happens for any buffer that contains many different characters from
unusual scripts. Try scrolling through the buffer generated by
mule-diag for an extreme example.
Andreas.
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