[TxMt] Typing eats up system resources

[Alex Ross]

> This is the first time I've ever experienced this problem.  I was  
> typing
> along in TextMate and suddenly it started to get really sluggish, so I
> pulled up activity monitor and whenever I edit text in TextMate, it  
> shoots
> up to 50 or 60% CPU usage.  I have an Intel Core 2 Duo MBP running OSX
> 10.5.2 and TextMate Version 1.5.7 (1455).  I usually leave TextMate  
> open for
> days at a time and I've never had this problem before.  I tried  
> closing
> TextMate and reopening and that didn't do anything.  Any ideas what   
> might
> be causing that?

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