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Re: Very (very very) slow typing for Mathematica in large cells.

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Hi,

> I have some functions that are very long and complicated and which
> take up many lines of a single cell.  For one particularly long such
> function it can take about 3 second for EACH new character that I type
> to appear in the cell.  What ends up happening is I go type a
> sentence, wait a minute for it to appear on screen, then go back to do
> whatever editing of my typos.  Needless to say this is a bit
> aggravating.  I expect it is related to the various syntax checking
> features that Mathematica now has.  Features that I otherwise really like,
> actually.

That's of course a tremendous feature of Mathematica which tells you 
that you should split up those monster cells :-)

> Does anyone know of any work around, or if this is only present on
> WinXP?  I have this problem in both 7 and 8.0.0, for both 32 and 64
> bit windowz, I believe.

I'm also still using Mathematica on WindowsXP, but have never seen this 
happen. Are you sure everything is o.k. with your installation? How 
large are those cells, e.g. in number of lines? You can switch off the 
syntax coloring completely or just some of it. If switching it off 
completely helps you might want to experiment and see if you find a 
particular setting that makes your notebooks react slow and just disable 
that.

But honestly (and seriously) I would rather invest some time in 
disentangling your functions. That would not only make the interface 
more responsive but also ease (or probably even make possible) the 
maintenance of that code. And - be sure I would give you a hard time if 
you'd try to persuade me that your code is so special that this isn't 
possible...

hth,

albert

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Very (very very) slow typing for Mathematica in large cells. BernieTheJet <berniethejet@gmail.com> - 2011-05-22 10:55 +0000
  Re: Very (very very) slow typing for Mathematica in large cells. István Zachar <replicatorzed@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 10:24 +0000
    Re: Very (very very) slow typing for Mathematica in large cells. Peter Pein <petsie@dordos.net> - 2011-05-24 09:59 +0000
      Re: Very (very very) slow typing for Mathematica in large cells. BernieTheJet <berniethejet@gmail.com> - 2011-05-25 09:57 +0000
  Re: Very (very very) slow typing for Mathematica in large cells. Albert Retey <awnl@gmx-topmail.de> - 2011-05-23 10:27 +0000
  Re: Very (very very) slow typing for Mathematica in large cells. David Bailey <dave@removedbailey.co.uk> - 2011-05-23 12:41 +0000
    Re: Very (very very) slow typing for Mathematica in large cells. BernieTheJet <berniethejet@gmail.com> - 2011-05-24 09:58 +0000

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