I’m trying to use Emacs’ Rmail mode to hunt something down in a 3gb mbox file and rmail-summary-sort-by-date has been using 80% of my CPU for the last half hour 🙃
Lessons:
Emacs Lisp is the worst Lisp
Emacs is nowhere near up to the task of being a “modern Lisp machine” and anyone who says otherwise is delusional
I really need to figure out a better way of browsing and searching my old email archives
bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@skadi@stereophonic.space
@bonifartius I wish, that would require I have some idea of what to search for though 
@skadi that usually is helpful, yes :D
thinking of it, in general a search which uses a thesaurus would be pretty nice..
@bonifartius I'm pretty sure the Xapian library can do thesaurus-ing in a bunch of languages
@skadi it indeed lists synonyms as feature. will keep that in mind. it's one of the projects i have only ever seen listed as dependency but never used :)
