Typing with pleasure, and low latency

Re:Typing with pleasure, and low latency by rdslw on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @11:59AM (#15073666)

TL;DR of very good while long ;) article:

Use a responsive editor (makes the most difference).

* Use a low-latency keyboard, if possible.

* Choose programs that add global keyboard hooks wisely.

* Turn off unnecessary “image enhancers” in you monitor.

* Enable stacking window manager in your OS (e.g. in Windows 7, 8).

TESTED EDITORS RESULTS, Average latency, ms

    IDEA-zl     11.9
    GVim	19.0
    Gedit	23.9
    Emacs	44.7
    Sublime     52.1
    Atom	90.0
    Netbeans	119.1
    Eclipse	133.6

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Re:Typing with pleasure, and low latency by westoncb on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:28PM (#15075136)

What is IDEA-zl? (Google turned up nothing)

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Re:Typing with pleasure, and low latency by smnscu on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:55PM (#15075360)

IDEA in zero latency mode

https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/08/experimental-zero-la...

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Re:Typing with pleasure, and low latency by vbuwivbiu on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @03:50PM (#15075761)

does that mean IDEA 2017 is zero latency ?

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Re:Typing with pleasure, and low latency by tomtheengineer on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @04:01PM (#15075873)

Looks like it:

> So today, after almost 6 months of extensive testing, we are enabling zero latency typing as the default setting in all IntelliJ-based IDEs, including CLion.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2017/01/clion-starts-2017-1...

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Re:Typing with pleasure, and low latency by matt4077 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @01:09AM (#15078660)

MacOS: VSCode and iTerm got 17.x ms, Terminal.app is at 7ms.

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Re:Typing with pleasure, and low latency by mcguire on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @03:06PM (#15075444)

Note: those are the worst-case timings, power-saving mode in a VirtualBox.

IDEA without the zero-latency mod is 198.8.

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