Re: How to speed up ido?

[Andreas Politz]

Andreas Politz wrote:
> Andreas Politz wrote:
> > Seweryn Kokot wrote:
> > > Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> writes:
> > >
> > > > senny wrote:
> > > > > Hey there
> > > > >
> > > > > I wrote a function to open any file in my project using ido. The
> > > > > Problem is, that the project has a lot of files and a deeply nested
> > > > > directory structure. When i then complete the file name in ido using
> > > > > fuzzy-matching it is extremely slow and unusable. Is there a way to
> > > > > increase the speed of ido? or should i take another approach to this
> > > > > problem? I am currently using the method "ido-completing-read".
> > > > >
> > > > > regards,
> > > > > Senny
> > > >
> > > > A while ago I wrote a mode called ido-hacks. As the name
> > > > suggests it contains a couple of more or less dirty
> > > > modifications to ido, among them :
> > > >
> > > > * faster display of prospect (streamlined one loop)
> > > > * caching of already computed flex-matches
> > > > * use ido for every completing-read call
> > > >
> > > > If you're interested I could mail/post it and you could maybe
> > > > extract the optimization parts (It's one advice and one redefinition.)
> > > > Btw, I am using it all the time.
> > > >
> > > > -ap
> > >
> > > Could you please send it here? I think there are more people
> > > interested in it!
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > I attached it to this mail. Compiling is suggested. Load and enable it 
> > like this:
> >
> > (ido-mode 1)
> > (ido-hacks-mode 1)
> >
> >
> > -ap
>
> I have send the wrong version....
>
> -ap

Since noone seems to be able to receive the attached file, I have put it
on the web :

http://www0.fh-trier.de/~politza/emacs/ido-hacks.el.gz

-ap