"Sean O'Halpin" <sean.ohal...@gmail.com> writes:
> In your opinion, would it be possible to reproduce the functionality
> of outline-mode using text properties rather than overlays? And in the
> case of org-mode, would this really make that much of a difference in
> terms of performance?
Broadly speaking, answer seems to be a "Yes". It is possible that some
details have to be hammered out wrt indirect buffers.
See the last item in this post
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-10/msg00177.html
>
> Regards,
> Sean
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:56:11 +0200
>>> Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
>>>
>>> I guess outline mode does have the exact same problem in this case, in
>>> fact any mode with large amount of hidden text.
>>
>> Of course. The only difference is that outline is not as popular as
>> Org, and usually is used with relatively short chunks of text. But
>> the problems are exactly the same.
>>
