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Re: UNC paths vs mapped drives in CVS Emacs
From: |
Mathias Dahl |
Subject: |
Re: UNC paths vs mapped drives in CVS Emacs |
Date: |
17 Nov 2004 19:43:35 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> writes:
> I have been using Emacs 21.3 for a long time on Windows NT4 and
> Windows 2000 and often opened files using their UNC paths, like this:
>
> Find file: //myserver/myshare/myfile.txt
>
> Now I am using the CVS version of Emacs, and it still *works* but
> veeery slowly. Navigating to the file is quick enough, but when I open
> it there seems to be a long delay.
>
> If I map the share to a letter, like this:
>
> c:\> net use z: \\myserver\myshare\myfile.txt
>
> and opens file from that mapped "drive", it is as snappy as it was
> before.
Just to help others that may have this problem I will post some
information I just found by searching the net:
* It seems the reason for the slowness is some extra checks that emacs
does regarding version control. I'm not sure about the exact cause
though.
* A workaround until it is fixed is to do this:
(setq vc-handled-backends '(RCS CVS SVN SCCS))
In my case, I just left CVS and SVN in there. If you do not use any
VC software I guess you can set it to null.
* If you want the full story, follow this link:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=Slow+access+to+files+using+UNC+path&submit=Search%21&idxname=emacs-devel&max=100&result=normal&sort=date%3Aearly
(sorry for the incredibly long URL, but using those query parameters
gives a good overview)
/Mathias