Re: working with tables can be quite painful...

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

On Saturday, 17 Sep 2016 at 15:37, Michael Brand wrote:
> Hi Eric
>
> Question, out of curiosity: Is there a difference when you delete all lines
> above and below the table, with and without adding a headline above?

Hi Michael,

Maybe.  I know that org's performance improves when I narrow the buffer
to just the section I am working on, when I work on long documents so
the lines above and below the table may affect things.  

> One of my tables fluctuates around 150 rows and around 20 to 40
> columns, overall a few hundred characters wide (columns with some
> history window for each row). Almost all fields are just text although
> I think this doesn't matter at all. The table starts at about line 50
> and is followed by about 7600 lines. Since years I manipulate it at
> least every few days without any slowness, often on much weaker
> hardware than yours.

How long do you spend manipulating the table at any one time?  I have an
impression that performance degrades over time in a single session.  But
I have no evidence for this.  It's just an impression.

thanks,
eric


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