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

From: Jason Rumney <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 20:41:41 +0800

Lennart Borgman wrote:
> Could it be that Emacs has the wrong default directory internally when
> searching for some files? (Perhaps fonts?)
>   

Emacs doesn't search for fonts directly on Windows. I am pretty sure 
Windows itself only searches in a fixed location for fonts, otherwise 
other applications would have the same slowdown whenever they enumerate 
fonts when the default directory is a network drive.