Re: [h-e-w] very slow kbd-macro

[Erwin Achermann]

"Theodore A. Jump" wrote:
> 
> At 10:51 AM 11/1/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> >I found that the execution of kbd-macros is deadly slow. I bet i am
> >faster repeating the keystrokes by hand... As far as i can tell the
> >speed is otherwise about the same as I'm used to by 20.7.
> 
> What type of things are you doing in your keyboard macros?
In my particular case, it was an incremental search, replacing some
bits, isearching another part, and doing some changes there.

> How are your recording your macros (M-x start-kbd-macro <stuff> M-x
> end-kbd-macro)?
Yes, that's what i use to record a macro and and M-x call-last-kbd-macro
to run it. 

> I've noticed since some pretest for 21 that depending upon what you do in
> the macro it will execute wildly slower (for example, while it is my first
> instinct to do searches via isearch interactively, it works more
> efficiently if you just use search-forward and search-backward in macros).
> I have not spent time analyzing this, but I'm sure it has to do with the
> visual feedback mechanisms if isearch still running during the macro (in
> this case).
This could explain it. However i tried it: pressing the keys for the two
incremental searches by hand was still faster with the visual feedback,
than calling the macro.... which doesn't  give the visual feedback.....
so less done, and still slower! 
> 
> >Is this a known problem of emacs 21.1.1 or is just a peculiarity of this
> >particular binary? Which is the official place where to get x86-binaries
> >from?
> 
> The "standard place" for precompiled binaries would be ftp.gnu.org and the
> mirrors under "/gnu/windows/emacs/<whatever>" but I have not heard that an
> official precompiled file set has been posted yet.

Thanks for the clarification. I guess we will read about official
binaries on the ML.


Cheers
Erwin