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Mon Apr 7 22:03:46 JST 2008
Hi. At Sun, 6 Apr 2008 02:00:26 +0200, Xavier Maillard wrote: > But too many notes and too long notes are impractical anyway. > > So what ? Are you telling me that howm is not suited for people > wanting to take many notes ? How are you doing then ? If you are > using howm since 2005. I am pretty sure you have ended up with > gigas of note files, aren't you ? My notes are 40MB, 360000 lines, 2700 files. On my laptop (Pentium M 1.2GHz, 1GB memory), it takes 10 sec or more for the first search after every hibernation. Then the succeeding searches take 1 or 2 sec. These will be necessary for heavy use. (setq howm-view-use-grep t) ;; use external grep (setq howm-menu-refresh-after-save nil) (setq howm-menu-expiry-hours 6) ;; cache menu N hours (setq howm-menu-file "0000-00-00-000000.howm") ;; don't *search* > I like "one file for one day" rather than the default "one file for > one note", with an experimental feature for search-in-result. > > What's the advantage to have one file per day instead of the > default setting ? It makes grep slightly faster. It also decreases my mental barrier for casual note taking; I might feel MOTTAINAI for creating too many files otherwise. > The latest beta version of howm-mode is always available at here. > http://howm.sourceforge.jp/a/howm-test.tar.gz > > Nice. In what does it differ with the current 1.3.5 version > though ? Major changes are internal. There are also some minor bug fixes and minor experimental features.
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