Re: How to disable completely org-persist

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

    > Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:
    >> I too would like a means to disable org-persist. I don't doubt it
    >> may be useful for those users with "large" org files with
    >> multiply src-blocks, etc., etc., but, for me, I have not found
    >> any improvement in performance. As remarked by the OP, the
    >> feature should not be default-enabled.

    > Note that org-persist is not only used to cache parser data for
    > large files. For example, exported online images are also cached
    > instead of being downloaded on every export. Other things may also
    > be cached in future.

    > Normally, org-persist stores the data in $XDG_CACHE_HOME. It only
    > falls back to .emacs.d when cache directory does not exist. One
    > can also customize the value manually.

    > That being said, it should not be a big deal to allow disabling
    > org-persist when desired. In fact, org-persist is already
    > auto-disabled when using emacs -Q. I can add a user switch on top.

When you have time, of course, a disabling switch would be most useful -
in my opinion.

Best wishes,