I am nearing having to disable Shout entirely as well. It is also annoying
that it rehighilights the entire text, I find myself inserting periods and
such while entering code to prevent the 'red text' and 'italic/nonitalic'
switches on and off. It's nice to use more for browsing and reading now,
than actual coding with it.

-Lyndon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ned Konz" <ned at squeakland.org>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: 3.8 UI performance drop?


> On Thursday 02 December 2004 2:18 pm, Jon Hylands wrote:
> > I had major problems of this sort with Shout performance, so I stopped
> > using it. I really like Shout, but it makes Squeak text editing so slow
as
> > to be almost painful.
>
> I'd recommend doing things like syntax coloring in the background, and
> committing the changes after a bit of a delay in typing.
>
> Another possible improvement is to only update the portion of the text
window
> that is actually *changed* by typing, rather than redrawing the whole text
> for every keystroke (I'm not sure whether Shout already does this).
>
> -- 
> Ned Konz
> http://bike-nomad.com/squeak/
>