Why Emacs Consult async searches feel slow and how to speed them up
mpweiher
54 points
20 comments
September 09, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
geocar
It's possible to determine good values automatically: Measure your typing speed. You can do it in the background with: https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/emacs-keylogger.html and periodically update the latency parameters to be just over your natural typing speed.
KallDrexx
You know what makes Emacs feel slow? Corporate EDR BS. I thought Emacs was terrible to use until I realized it was extremely fast on my home computer. All the pauses that EDR does combined with Emacs mostly single threadedness is a bummer. I still daily drive it now for my IDE at work because it's workflows work better for me than others, but it is such a bummer.