Subject: Re: bug#3252: 23.0.93; extremely slow to open file on windows network drive

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 17:15:15 -0400

>> Try setting `vc-handled-backends' to nil.

> The gave me the following error on startup:

> Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `~/.emacs':

> Wrong type argument: symbolp, (RCS CVS SVN SCCS Bzr Git Hg Mtn Arch)

What Eli meant to say is

  (setq vc-handled-backends nil)
not
  (set vc-handled-backends nil)

        Stefan