On 19. Nov 2006, at 12:23, Christian Bogen wrote:
[...] I've brought this issue up on the list a few month ago but IIRC basically Allan didn't feel like investing any time/work because modern Macs are so much faster that it's not an problem there. It's a bit of a bummer for users who cannot afford to buy a new machine every two years or so (and for a text editor! ;).
You mean ‘for a spell checker’, which I did not write, so blame Apple for this! :p
As for performance though, I am most likely going to re-run the spell checker only on the line fragments resulting from soft wrap in 2.0, which should scale better.
Theoretically this is not ideal, because for example in Danish we have borrowed “words” like ‘ris ala mande’ (a dessert) where both ‘ala’ and ‘mande’ are not danish words, but the 3 words in succession should not be marked as misspelled -- I say theoretical, because there is no Danish spell checker, and according to Dansk Sprognævn, it is risalamande (just one word), but there are many of these examples.