Why Is Ctrl+Tab Responsive in EmEditor Text Editor, and How Can You Speed It Up?

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• February 22, 2009 at 5:28 pm #6955
  urlwolf
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  I’m finding that, even for tiny text files that do not have syntax highlighting, ctrl+tab is very slow, about 1sec on a 2GHz machine. Why? Is there anything I can do to improve this? It kills my flow since I ctrl+tab all the time.
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  February 22, 2009 at 5:39 pm #6957
  Yutaka Emura
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  urlwolf wrote:
  I’m finding that, even for tiny text files that do not have syntax highlighting, ctrl+tab is very slow, about 1sec on a 2GHz machine. Why? Is there anything I can do to improve this? It kills my flow since I ctrl+tab all the time.

  Thanks
  Are you using the Registry or INI files (portable option)? If you are using INI files, try the Registry please.
  February 22, 2009 at 5:58 pm #6959
  urlwolf
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  I disabled all plugins but project, and now switching is fast.
  Nevermind. I only need project right now anyway.
  February 22, 2009 at 6:00 pm #6960
  Yutaka Emura
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  urlwolf wrote:
  I disabled all plugins but project, and now switching is fast.
  Nevermind. I only need project right now anyway.
  Thanks for letting us know. It might be nice if you could find which plug-in was causing the problem.
  February 22, 2009 at 6:37 pm #6962
  urlwolf
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  Yes, I’m using the INI file.
  The slowness is back (still using INI file); I added autocomplete plugin.
  It only happens when switching from one language to another (I’m using a custom syntax file for ahk, based on the one distributed in the main application).
  I actually want to have a portable version of EmEditor. Can one go back and forth between INI and registry? How?
  Thanks
  February 22, 2009 at 9:48 pm #6964
  urlwolf
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  it is wordcomplete. It makes tab switching extraordinary slow (about one second).
  It might be only if the syntax file has a few thousand entries.
  I cannot try the registry method.
  I installed the standard 8.02 on top of the portable one, but it is still very slow when changing configurations etc, so I suspect it is reading INI files.
  Import/export does not offer an option to export to registry, only the other way around (registry to INI).
  Is this possible?
  February 23, 2009 at 2:25 am #6965
  Yutaka Emura
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  urlwolf wrote:
  it is wordcomplete. It makes tab switching extraordinary slow (about one second).
  It might be only if the syntax file has a few thousand entries.

  I cannot try the registry method.
  I installed the standard 8.02 on top of the portable one, but it is still very slow when changing configurations etc, so I suspect it is reading INI files.

  Import/export does not offer an option to export to registry, only the other way around (registry to INI).

  Is this possible?
  It is possible. Import/Export offers an option to export INI files to the Registry. Please make sure you use the latest version of EmEditor — currently v8.02.
  February 23, 2009 at 9:52 am #6972
  urlwolf
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  Not on my copy. It might be that if you install portable, then you don’t get that option? Also, I installed standard on the same directory as portable, and I still don’t get that option (I think it still uses the INI files, so there might be nothing in the registry for it to import).
  My question is: how do I force it to move INI information to the registry now?
  If I start from a clean install, I still have no access to the INI files, and I’ve lost all my cofiguration. Maybe I can dump them to text somehow?
  February 23, 2009 at 12:08 pm #6974
  urlwolf
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  I’m still trying to find a solution.
  I installed the non-portable version from scratch, and it does offer you to import from ini files. However, it’s a tiny one, that doesn’t carry much info: eeCommon.INI.
  Importing that one only doesn’t help. There’s a big one 1.5mb, that is called eeConfig. That seems like carrying a lot of info, but I couldn’t import it.
  So the standard emEditor had only the default settings. Not good.
  Then I moved all the inis on top of it. At that point everything works with my settings, but it’s not reading from the registry so it’s dog slow.
  This is a conundrum… I hope you can find a solution that makes emEditor fast AND portable at the same time.
  On the other hand, the wordcompletion plugin is still making tab switching slow even when reading from the registry. I noticed that it’s more evident when tab switching from a syntax-highlighted file to a text file (plain).
  Thanks!
  February 23, 2009 at 11:10 pm #6978
  Yutaka Emura
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  urlwolf wrote:
  Not on my copy. It might be that if you install portable, then you don’t get that option? Also, I installed standard on the same directory as portable, and I still don’t get that option (I think it still uses the INI files, so there might be nothing in the registry for it to import).

  My question is: how do I force it to move INI information to the registry now?

  If I start from a clean install, I still have no access to the INI files, and I’ve lost all my cofiguration. Maybe I can dump them to text somehow?
  You are right. I am sorry for confusion.
  You will first need to install EmEditor with the Registry. Then you can import the INI files into the Registry.

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