Re: slow bibtex menu access

[Roland Winkler]

Sebastian Luque <sluque@mun.ca> writes:

> Clicking on any item in my bibtex menu while editing *.bib files is taking
> outrageously long times on my system:

What do you want to do when "clicking on any item in my bibtex
menu"?

> GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of
> 2005-02-03 on trouble, modified by Debian
>
> I've tried setting bibtex-maintain-sorted-entries to t and nil, but it
> doesn't make a difference. It seems to be related to the size of the file,
> as when I edit a blank or a few-entries long *.bib there's no problem. My
> main reference file is 23,761 lines and that's when the menu is pretty
> much unuseable. Does somebody know how to get around this?

bibtex.el has been rewritten extensively. You might want to try the
CVS version. (However, this requires CVS emacs.)

Roland