Re: [Help-nano] Gradual slowdown with syntax highlighting

[Chris Allegretta]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 01:11:05PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote:
> I have noticed that while editing emails using syntax highlighting (as 
> supplied in the sample.nanorc file), after a few minutes of editing an 
> email, I start to notice a delay before each keypress.  The longer I 
> keep going, the longer this delay gets.  Eventually I need to quit and 
> restart nano to get back to a normal speed.  I am convinced that the 
> problem is with nano, not with my internet connection or processor 
> speed.  This only started to occur after I recompiled with 
> --enable-all and started to use syntax highlighting.
> 
> Here are the details of the version I am using:
> 
> address@hidden:~$ nano --version
>  GNU nano version 1.2.1 (compiled 10:46:54, Jun 13 2003)
>  Email: address@hidden    Web: http://www.nano-editor.org/
>  Compiled options: --enable-extra --enable-color --enable-multibuffer 
>    --enable-nanorc

Hi Ian,

        I'm curious, what OS version and, if using a Linux OS, 
distribution you are using.  While we did have huge memory issues in the 
past, recently there have not been nearly as many.

Chris A
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