[TextMate] Delay when switching to TextMate

[Carl-Johan Kihlbom]

On Oct 10, 2004, at 05:06, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 10. Oct 2004, at 0:52, Carl-Johan Kihlbom wrote:
>
>> I'm experiencing a very annoying (and productivity destroying) delay 
>> everytime I switch to TextMate from another application. This happens 
>> when I have about 2 windows with ~30 files in each drawer. Only 2-3 
>> open files in each window though.
>
> When re-activating TextMate it checks if contents of folder references 
> have been changed -- this should be relatively quick, but I've heard 
> some mention that it ain't on their network mounted drives.
>
> I'll try to improve this in the future, like using kqueue or 
> lazy-checking. Also, the current version has some integrity-checking 
> code which can be removed, this may also help.

Ah, yes. I forgot to mention that the open folders were on an AFP 
mounted volume. It would be useful if this checking was in a separate 
thread, so that it doesn't block me from editing the open document.

/ Carl-Johan