Bluefish : slow copy/paste ??

[R Kimber]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:42:12 +0100
Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:

> Then, when I try to paste ("Shift + Ins") the block of text into
> another
> HTML file/document, Bluefish seem to hang for 5 seconds until it dares
> pasting said text. I only copy 30 lines of text maximum, so it's
> hardly
> hard work, hence I would expect it to be instant, like with any text
> editor.

In my experience it depends on the file and on whether you have
highlighting turned on.

I have experienced similar problems when the file contains very long
lines and indeed actually wrote a little pascal program to break up such
files for that reason.  Switching off highlighting also usually solves
the problem.  With 'normal' files - i.e. files with short lines that
rarely wrap say more than once or twice on the screen - I never have a
problem, even when highlighting is on.

Presumably there is also a hardware issue: I assume the problem is
going to be worse on older, slower, machines.  My dual opteron copes
pretty well most of the time :)

- Richard.
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/