[TxMt] Extremely slow pasting of text

[Michael Ströck]

Hi all,

I'm having problems with big files. TextMate, for me, is practically  
unuseable for many applications, and I'm not sure wether something is  
wrong, or I'm just witnessing limitations of the app itself.

TextMate takes upwards of 3 minutes to paste moderately long pieces  
of text (30-70 KB) without line breaks. I use TextMate to edit  
Wikipedia entries, which are sometimes badly formated. Thirty  
thousand characters and not a newline in sight. When I copy texts  
like that and try to paste them into TextMate, it practically dies.  
Three times out of five, it won't recover. If it comes back, it's  
unbearably slow and practically unuseable. Am I doing something  
wrong, or is this a known issue? I am on a G4 1,25GHz with 1 GB of RAM.

Firefox's textfields can handle pasting and editing of 1MB snippets  
(I tried) without a hitch, EVEN in those JavaScript rich editor  
abominations, which probably aren't the most optimized pieces of code  
ever to parse text. And that's with all the other crap going on, like  
10 tabs open and several exensions installed.

What's going on?


Michael Ströck