[TxMt] Switching to TextMate is slow

[Colm McMullan]

Hi Steve,

Many thanks for the reply.  You're right, I'm working in 'project'
mode and accessing files over samba.  Looks like changing my
development setup is the way to go :)

Kind regards,
Colm

On 9/13/06, Steve Lianoglou <lists at arachnedesign.net> wrote:
> Hi Colm,
>
> > I'm running build 1215 on a MacBook and whenever I switch application
> > into TextMate it takes a few seconds before the application becomes
> > active.  For those few seconds the application is just frozen
> > (although it buffers keypresses and executes them when it becomes
> > active).
> >
> > This is very annoying :)  Anyone able to help?
>
> This comes up fairly often on this list and the usual culprits are:
>
> 1) You are most likely working in "project mode", for lack of a
> better word. Which is to say that you've either dragged a folder onto
> TextMate, or using an actual TextMate project file. The litmus test
> on wether or not you are in "project mode" (that's not an official
> "mode" btw) is wether or not you can open/view a drawer w/ your
> documents in it; and
>
> 2) You are most likely working on files over some type of network
> share (AFP or Samba, perhaps).
>
> It's a known issue and I believe Allan is working on a fix (there is
> no ETA on that, however). The freeze you're seeing happens because
> TextMate rescans all of the documents when it gains focus to see if
> another app has changed any of them. This way you won't trampling
> over a change that you might have done elsewhere.
>
> One thing you can do is make sure to work on local files everytime
> you're dealing with large projects (svn/cvs is your friend). The
> delay that results from rescanning all of the files in the project
> will most likely not be all that noticeable when you do.
>
> -steve
>
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