2009/12/10 Lyle <lylew...@gmail.com>: > > Hi folks, > > I was delighted to find out about yi, which I'm considering using as a > replacement for Emacs. After having trouble building from hackage, I > downloaded the trunk code from darcs and was able to build it. > > However I noticed that it opened up in console mode and was a bit > slow. E.g. the cursor could not keep up when I held the arrow key > down, even if the page didn't need to scroll. > > But I read that there was also a GTK interface.
I haven't tried the GTK interface, but the sluggishness generally depends on what mode you are in - e.g. the JavaScript mode is incredibly slow given certain (unfortunately quite commonly used) input, such as arrays. This is due to the fact that Yi modes revolve around "real" parsers as opposed to Emacs' standard way of syntax highlighting using regular expressions. (There are Emacs modes which do parsing, but they are not in the majority.) Which mode did you use? -- Deniz Dogan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Yi development mailing list yi-devel@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
