Re: [O] Ways to make org feasible for huge files

[Jude DaShiell]

Why not working-file and archive-file?  Archive-file would be the big 
file and working-file would be the small file in that scheme.

On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, brian powell wrote:

> * Maybe EMACS  "narrowing" could be used:
> http://www.gnu.org/s/libtool/manual/emacs/Narrowing.html
> ...
> Narrowing can make it easier to concentrate on a single subroutine or
> paragraph by eliminating clutter. It can also be used to limit the
> range of operation of a replace command or repeating keyboard macro.
> ...
> C-x n n
> Narrow down to between point and mark (narrow-to-region).
> C-x n w
> Widen to make the entire buffer accessible again (widen).
> C-x n p
> Narrow down to the current page (narrow-to-page).
> C-x n d
> Narrow down to the current defun (narrow-to-defun).
> 
> ** I mean: Maybe an OrgMode user could do narrow-to-region (and then
> just "render" on the new smaller region) and/or an implementation
> something like "org-narrow-to-region" could be coded.
> 
> *** Just an idea--your mileage may vary--it may not work at all--I
> hope you try it out and tell how it works for you.
> 
> * I ran into similar problems: I made the file into 2 separate
> files--one very large and the other very small that I render a
> lot--when it gets big, I just prune out older and less important now
> (backburner) subjects, paste them at the bottom of the small file and
> then cut and paste the less important "*" sections into the big file.
> ** Works great, its really the best way to do it--for backing up and
> encrypting reasons and hard drive space reasons etc.
> ** Could call them blahfile_now.org and blahfile_later.org (for the
> small and large files respectively).
> *** Since OrgMode files are plain text files, this works great.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I love org and I think there's nothing like it out there, but I'm
> > considering using Evernote for reference notes, because my reference.org
> > file has grown too big (4234k + lines). This makes the rendering of the file
> > way too slow, and 2 times out of 10 emacs crashes because of that.
> 
> 

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