Re: Viper-mode too slow on OSX Snow Leopard (custom-compiled cocoa emacs 23.2.1)

[Raffaele Ricciardi]

Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:
> *bump*
>
> No hints ?
>
> Marcelo.
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
> <celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Putting editor wars aside, I've started using VIM (MacVim to be
> > specific) and after a steep learning curve, as you might expected, I'm
> > delighted by the efficient way to manipulate the text. However, I
> > still use emacs a lot and I don't plan on leaving it, since I have
> > most of my writings (blog post drafts, notes, todo lists (thanks
> > orgmode!)) there.
> >
> > I do, however, want to start using only one navigation model, and the
> > VIM one is the logical choice for me right now. Luckily emacs has
> > Viper-mode, but when I activate it on emacs 23, it just renders emacs
> > so slow to point I can't really use it. Each keystroke takes about
> > 600ms to render to screen, and if I start typing fast, it just hangs
> > and takes a few seconds to show the whole text.
> >
> > Emacs version: GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.29)
> > OSX Snow Leopard.
> >
> > Any ideas of what's going on and how to fix it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Marcelo.

Have you tried loading just Viper after "emacs -Q"?

Consider also using Vim-mode instead: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/VimMode

To debug the issue you are experiencing, you would need to profile all 
functions involved whenever you press a key, but - AFAIK - currently 
Emacs lacks a call-tree generator.