i have not bulk archived in a year or two, because it is too slow for me. i am curious why, when appending to an archive file, append-to-file or write-region are not used, to merely put the entries there instead of loading the archive file into emacs?
[this is the case even with zero-size archive files; after a few entries it slows down.] On 2/28/21, Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> wrote: > thank you for your detaild reply. > > more below. > > On 2/28/21, Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> details why). So, many org commands tend to lag on large archives. > > that makes sense. but why would appending to an archive as the result > of bulk archiving lag? if the problem is large archive files, which > i'd bet is the case for a lot of users and not just me, then could org > in principle be changed so that all it does is append? thus not lag? > like, build the entry in a temporary buffer? > > as i see it, having more than one archive file per org file is good > for speed, but doesn't work in existing org, because iirc e.g. v A in > the agenda goes org agenda file -> corresponding archive file and will > miss the archive files that do not have a corresponding org file with > exactly the same basename sans extension. > > i'd be ok with released org either allowing hte user to make > year-based archives by having all of org recognize them, or my just > append thing above. maybe i am missing something. > >> The lags can be solved in several ways: >> 1. Reduce the archive file size > > this implies to me e.g. year-based archives, which would fail the v A > test iiuc. thus needed extra code. > >> 2. Use optimised folding mechanism [1] (this will speed up org-mode in >> general as well) > > i look forward to this filtering down to maint. :] [i used to follow > master but too much for me now for health reasons.] > >> 3. (untested) Put #+STARTUP: showeverything at the beginning of the >> archives, so that nothing is going to be folded > > good idea. my included-by-agenda archive files do seem to be in > showeveryting mode already for some reason. but perhaps not when bulk > archiving. > > would it be a silly idea for an fr that org make this an option for > bulk archiving? hmm or for archive files in general? > >>> i will keep in mind disabling font lock in archive files. any >>> suggested code for that? >> >> Note that it will mostly affect find-file performance. To disable > > if so, then i figure it's a one-time thing per file so no big deal. > but thanks for hte font lock stuff i didnt' know about. > >> Sorry, the config is actually not yet formatted for public use. You can >> search for the code block containing "defun >> org-archive--compute-location". > > firefox find does not seem to find it. > >> >> You will need that code block and the following code block. >> >> [1] https://github.com/yantar92/org >> >> Best, >> Ihor >> >> > > > -- > The Kafka Pandemic > > Please learn what misopathy is. > https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html > -- The Kafka Pandemic Please learn what misopathy is. https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html
