> From: AlFire ggmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:25:03 -0700
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>> From: AlFire ggmail.com>
>>> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:56:58 -0700
>>>
>>> this is a situation: I access samba based file system from Windows. It
>>> is not rocket fast but neither pig slow. I noted the find-file takes
>>> veeeery long (15 seconds) time to complete. Another factor is that the
>>> file is quite deep in the directory structure namely:
>>>
>>> W:\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\dir5\dir6\dir7\dir8\dir9\dirA\dirB\dirC\file.c

>>
>> Which version of Emacs is that?

> 22.2.1
>

>>
>> Also, did you type the above long file name literally, or did you use
>> TAB-completion somewhere along the way? If the latter, please tell
>> _exactly_ what you typed, character by character (C-h l should help
>> you gathering this info).
>>

>
> no tab completion involved - provided the full path to the find-file and hit . In addition drag-and-drop as well as the reading the file during the desktop-load is slow as well.