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Re:Zed: The Next Phase by zem on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @04:32PM (#7518784)
it makes me somewhere between depressed and angry whenever i type into an entry widget that cannot keep up with my keystrokes. i really don't know why this is not a drop-everything-and-fix-this bug, but the computing world seems to have accepted it as one of those things that happens.
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Re:Zed: The Next Phase by chr1 on Thursday April 03, 2014 @06:46AM (#7521982)
I think this is because developers tend to have fairly fast computers, and simply don't realize that their program is slow on old hardware.

But does this happen with Zed? For me it works well even on old pentium4 desktop.

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Re:Zed: The Next Phase by zem on Thursday April 03, 2014 @07:51PM (#7528038)
wasn't talking about zed specifically, just about text entry software in general. the worst offenders seem to be IDEs and web-based forms that want to do per-character callbacks.
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