Bluefish : slow copy/paste ??

[Tony]

Yes, I have experienced the same thing with Bluefish.  I like it but
it can be painfully slow on large files.  I am now  using Emacs.

Tony


On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:50:18 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > 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.
> >  --
> > Richard Kimber
> > http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
> 
> Thanks for the comments Rich, it's not just me then.
> My machine might be "old" (3 years, Athlon 1700+, 512MB), but
> Dreamweaver runs at the speed of light on it, even inside VMware, so
> native/Linux programs hardly have any excuse whatsoever for being
> slow...)
> Also, my HTML files are very basic, lines never wrap, although syntax
> highlighting is indeed on, but what's the heck...
> I dinf bluefish otherwise fast, it's only the text editor that's always
> dragging its feet. I guess I will just have to live with it until they
> get round to fixing it...
> 
> --
> Vince
> 
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