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Greg,
Maybe try running without DOSKEY for 2 weeks or more...
just an best-guess as to interval between "spastic editor"
episodes!
Wiz <{;-)
At 07/13/04 5:54:00 PM, you wrote:
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>On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:22:18 -0600, Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote:
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>> Greg,
>> This brings one thought to my feeble mind...DOSKEY. Since I do not use
>> DOSKEY to hold the last however many keystrokes in buffer memory, it
>> would be interesting to know if other Arachne users use it. With the
>> knowledge
>> that using DOSKEY can be very addicting, you might run an experiment or
>> two without DOSKEY loaded and see if your "ghost text" still appears in your
>> email replies and such.
>
>It's a thought. Yes, DOSKEY is additicting, but I could do
>without it for a while.
>
>OTOH how long should the test run? I have had periods of several
>weeks without any troubles from the editor, then it will crop up
>again.
>
>Damn it all! This problem is so inconsistent! If only it would
>come on and stay on so I could chase it down.
>
>This is just a thought, on a completely different tack... I have
>noticed while typing in the internal editor window that when I
>wrap from the last line on the screen, the new text appears
>immediately in the new line at the bottom of the screen but I get
>duplicates of the line above or sometimes the one above that for
>about a second or so until the screen re-adjusts.
>
>On a 33MHz 486, this is a *V*E*R*Y* long time. No other editor I
>have seen is as slow. Even on my old 286 it was always much
>faster that this.
>
>I suspect, but I've never been able to verify it, that there are
>more errors if I page-up or page-down or scroll with the
>scrollbar BEFORE the screen has settled.
>
>I can't imagine what could be going on in the background of the
>editor that would take so long.
>
>
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