Re: Is xemacs' etags.el really "better and faster"?
>>>> "Michael" == Michael Livshin
<mlivshin(a)bigfoot.com> writes:
Michael> Raymond Toy <toy(a)rtp.ericsson.se> writes:
Michael> which was (require 'uniquify). sorry for not writing clearly.
>
> I've had that for ages. I haven't noticed any slowdown. What are you
> loading?
Michael> oh, just lots of files with similar names. the slowness really kicks
Michael> in when I'm working with several ClearCase views simultaneously and
Michael> open same files in 2 or 3 different views.
I do this fairly often as well.
Michael> maybe my uniquify settings are to blame somehow:
Michael> (setq uniquify-buffer-name-style 'post-forward)
Michael> (setq uniquify-after-kill-buffer-p nil) ; disabled because having
Michael> ; to wait 3 seconds for a
Michael> ; buffer to close is
Michael> ; especially frustrating
Ok, these are the exact same settings that I have. u-a-k-b-p is the
default, right? If your comment is right, then that's why I've never
seen the slowness, since it's always been set to nil for me.
Ray