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

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On 22/05/2011 11:55, BernieTheJet wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernard
>
There was a slow typing bug at 8.0.0 that went away at 8.0.1, but I 
think your problem is just that you are creating very large cells. The 
real question is why you need to create such large cells. The only time 
when I sometimes encounter this problem in a milder form, is when I 
paste some output into an input cell. Normally I would only do that for 
exploratory purposes.

I am not sure if this problem is even related to syntax colouring, as 
there are also layout mechanisms operating that may become clumsy with 
gigantic cells.

Tell us why you are creating such cells, and someone will offer a good 
alternative.

David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk

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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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