slooowwww text entry in fields

[david bovill]

On 24 Sep 2005, at 20:34, Ken Ray wrote:

> On 9/23/05 5:08 PM, "Timothy Miller" <gandalf at doctorTimothyMiller.com>
> wrote:
>
>> We had a little thread on this a week or two ago. Several users
>> confirmed the problem. Some had fast machines, so I guess the speed
>> of my machine is not the main problem. I think they were all Mac
>> users. I never did figure out if this is a Macintosh-only issue.

Yes - seems to happen from time to time - and for me this goes back  
to early Metacard days - as I have had the problem on Linux and MC.  
It seems to happen rarely and in low memory situations which can be  
made worse if you leave Rev / MC running for days at a time... I  
always figured that I had done something to eat up memory or there  
was something causing a memory leak. Since getting a new PowerBook  
and lots of memory I have only seen it once or twice.

I have always thought it related to the other quirk - selecting a few  
paragraphs of text in a field results in the odd line not being  
selected  or included in the pasted text - it is cut though :)

When either of these things start to happen I save, quit and restart  
- as they are the sign of an immanent crash. I talked to Scott Raney  
a few years back and he was aware of this - but it is so rare no-one  
had ever managed to create a reproducible bug - believe me I tried -  
that it is still hanging around there somewhere's I guess?