<div dir="ltr">Thanks. Switching to the dev version sped up .bib loading considerably. It still seems slower --- I haven't formally timed it, but a 43kb .bib loads more slowly than a 160kb .tex (with a .pdf loading simultaneously), but now the difference is a second or two and not 3-10s.<div><br></div><div>Kyle</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 4:06 PM, Stefan Löffler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:st.loeffler@gmail.com" target="_blank">st.loeffler@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Kyle,<span class=""><br>
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On 2018-04-12 16:39, Kyle Woodward wrote:<br>
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I have noticed the following behavior in TeXworks (Windows 8.1 64 bit):<br>
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(*) .tex files open essentially immediately (double-click file, TeXworks opens)<br>
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(*) .bib files open after a delay of 3-10 seconds, seemingly increasing in file size<br>
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The behavior disappears if I rename a .bib file as a .tex file, so it somehow has something to do with interpretation of the file extension.<br>
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This gets incredibly frustrating as bibliographies become large, so at this point I use TeXworks for LaTeX and vi for BibTeX.<br>
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Is there a something I can do to avoid/speed up this behavior?<br>
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This sounds like a syntax highlighting problem. Please try the latest development version of Tw (available from <a href="https://bintray.com/texworks/Windows-latest/TeXworks-for-Windows%3Alatest" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bintray.com/texworks/W<wbr>indows-latest/TeXworks-for-Win<wbr>dows%3Alatest</a>) where this should have been fixed. Alternatively, you can try disabling syntax highlighting in the preferences to see if this makes any difference.<br>
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HTH<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Stefan<br>
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