GNU bug report logs - #32899
27.0.50; wdired-do-renames: Speed up for long Emacs sessions

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 17:24:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Found in version 27.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 32899 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Brett Gilio <brettg <at> posteo.net>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 32899 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32899: 27.0.50;
 wdired-do-renames: Speed up for long Emacs sessions
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2018 13:05:46 -0500

Tino Calancha writes:

> Severity: wishlist
>
> In a long lived Emacs session with many buffers, we can
> get a significant improvement with `wdired-do-renames' if we
> drop an unnecessary step, i.e., if `dired-rename-file'
> calls `dired-rename-subdir' iif FILE is a directory.
>
> I observe gains as high as a factor 15.

I might be interested in looking into this further. Though, I 
wonder if
anybody else has any concerns as to why `dired-rename-file' was
implemented here as a step in the first place.


-- 
Brett M. Gilio
Free Software Foundation, Member
https://gnu.org/software/guix | https://emacs.org
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