Scrolling a Gigantic Text file in a field

[Richard Gaskin]

DunbarX wrote:

 > I understand that Rev does not like stacks with lots of cards,
 > but this is the first I have heard it does not like fields with
 > lots of chars. Is this so? I made a scrolling field with 100,000,000
 > random characters, and it seems to work fine (The thumb, no surprise,
 > does not move overmuch while scrolling). But are other bg processes
 > affected?

My experience is like yours:  I've put the whole Bible from Project 
Gutenberge into a field, and after an initial pause to buffer it I found 
it scrolled far more gracefully than in MS Word, TexEdit, or any other 
app I tried it in.

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