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by winestock 5490 days ago
Agreed on the responsiveness issue. You don't even have to open hundreds of buffers, either. Emacs has given me embarrassing pauses while auto-saving a text file only a few kilobytes in size. Emacs will also make the text flicker as it redisplays the buffer every few minutes.
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It's probably irrelevant, but maybe http://www.method-combination.net/blog/archives/2011/03/11/s... will help
Thank you, I'll try it.