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From: randy@uw-june.UUCP (William Randy Day)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Major mode loading time: dependent on file length?
Message-ID: <2552@uw-june.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 16:14:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 21 16:14:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 12:13:02 EDT
Organization: U of Washington, CSCI, Seattle
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I have a major mode that's invoked by the command bibTeX-mode. It does
nothing but invoke tex-mode, define a few keys, local-unset a few key,
and setq a few variables. However, I have noticed that the execution of
this bibTeX-mode command (which is not byte compiled) varies tremendously
with the size of the file in the buffer where I execute the bibTeX-mode
command. Executing the command in an empty buffer is instantanious. Executing
the command in a buffer with 12k of text takes several minutes.

Any ideas why the major mode execution times vary so much?
I'm using GNU emacs, version 18.32. The actual code for bibTeX-mode is
included below:

(defun bibTeX-mode ()
  "bibTeX-mode changes the mode to a style suitable for bibTeX files."
  (interactive)
  (tex-mode)

  (define-key TeX-mode-map "\en" 'next-field)
  (define-key TeX-mode-map "\ej" 'justify-field)
  (define-key TeX-mode-map "\e]" 'next-key)
  (local-unset-key "\"")
  (setq mode-name "BibTeX-mode")
  (setq Key-Search-String "")
  (novalue)
)

Thanks,
Randy Day.
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