Jay McCarthy <jay.mccar...@gmail.com> wrote: > This was very useful. I didn't have the problem with the minimal > setup. I then went through my global modes, turning them off until I > found that by turning off global-linum-mode it drastically improved > the performance of org-mode and removed the crash. Great! Now, I'll > try org-mode for realsies.
It used to be the case (and probably still is, given your experience above) that linum-mode is expensive: if you can live without it, you'd be much better off. emacs tries to make it possible to go places without having to know line numbers (e.g M-x compile will print out error messages with line numbers but all you have to do is C-x ` to find the next error message *and* get to the source code that caused it). That's generally a better way to go. It's not always possible to do without line numbers (although you can come pretty close), so there is a mode to print out the current line number in the mode line which is not nearly as expensive: line-number-mode. I have that on all the time and I do not notice any performance impact. Nick
