RR Documentation, mini-bugs, and so on . . .

Jon jbondy at sover.net
Sun Jul 10 09:03:18 EDT 2005


While I have criticized Rev about a number of things, I have no speed 
problems with any of the documentation.  I wonder what else is going on.

:)

Jon


Mathewson wrote:

>Well,
>
>I read something a bit odd
>by a chap called Jon on the Rev use-list about
>supposed bugs in the 2.6 documentation.
>
>And, being the sort that finds it awfully difficult to keep
>my mouth shut (no, surely not?) I thought I would bung in
>my few cents worth:
>
>Being the proud, new owner of DreamCard 2.6, I find myself
>returning repeatedly to RR 2.0.1 to consult the Transcript
>Dictionary - Why ??? - because, in my experience it is
>considerably SIMPLER and MORE RESPONSIVE than the HELP
>system in 2.6 which, I feel, suffers from a type of FEATURE
>BLOAT.
>
>Maybe, the HELP system in 2.6 needs to be 'chopped up' into
>lots of interconnected substacks that will not slow things
>down so drastically.
>
>My development machine is a G4 Mac (dual 1.27 GHz, 1 GB
>RAM), so not quite as slow as some computers - but when I
>open HELP in DC 2.6 everything grinds to a halt.
>
>So, ran RR 2.0.1 in the background until I worked out how
>to extract the Transcript dictionary and import it into the
>RevTools stack of my DC 2.6 --- not totally satisfactory,
>but it will do at the moment.
>
>Certainly, the Transcript Dictionary (and other parts of
>the RR 2 help system) work lika a charm compared to 2.6.
>
>Might be something to do with the eye-candy, might be
>something to do with 2.6 suddenly using an awful lot of
>RAM.
>
>Sincerely, Richmond
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