How to make komodo light weight for better editing

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Hi All

Is there any way to make komodo lighter so that it open fast and work like notepad++.?

2

I know that we can disable few addons which made komodo to work fast but is there any otherway.

3

I have both Edit and IDE installed and I use a bunch of shell scripts to make Edit my “from the command line” editor and IDE my work-a-day big project thing. Your mileage will almost certainly vary.

First, I think Edit will always run a little faster than IDE. I haven’t done the hard work of benchmarking it, but it feels faster to open.

Second, disable every package you don’t need. So for example I only occasionally make quick edits to Ruby files, so I disable all Ruby support. Whereas, my IDE config retains Ruby because startup time isn’t a factor.

Third, disable session saving. (Don’t restore the previous workspace). It’ll make it much faster to open.

Turning off file status updates improves speed some. (I think)

Hope that helps!

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Adding on to @neurobashing’s comment,

For both you could try disabling syntax checking and code intel in the prefs.

For IDE you could disable SCC tools. I can’t think of anything else off the top of my head.

Note: setting your sites on a start time to match Notepad++ isn’t realistic. But we’ll help you as much as we can here. (EDIT: I haven’t tried starting Notepad++ in years…maybe it’s not as fast as I remember…)

  • Carey
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On the Mac you can do this:

function komodoedit () {
if [ ! -e $1 ]; then
    touch $1
  fi
  open -b com.activestate.komodoedit $1
}
alias ke=komodoedit

to open files from the command a la

$ ke some_file.blah

and it’ll “just work”. Likewise you can change the open command to open -b -W com.activestate.komodoedit $1 and it’ll wait correctly if you want to use it as your $GIT_EDITOR env var.

(You have to touch the file first if it doesn’t exist, or it doesn’t want to open anything. A better version would probably listen for the closing signal and if the $1 is still a 0 byte file, remove it. But I’m lazy.)

Some variation on this stuff will probably work on Linux, I have no clue how to make it work on Windows. Probably Powershell?

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Hi All

Thanks for the suggestions. I am using windows and not Mac. Any suggestions on windows.

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None of my suggestions were platform specific and all of @neurobashing’s suggestions in his first comment were platform agnostic as well. Did you try those?

If you have a specific question, please ask.

  • Carey
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Hi Carey

I have made the changes as per your suggestion. It improve the performance but still take some time to open the file.

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Yes, that’s a result of living in a universe constrained by a linear timeline; All things take some amount of time to occur.

Glad you’re seeing improvements!

  • Carey