[TxMt] Re: Problem: moving the screen up or down randomly

[Allan Odgaard]

On 11 May 2020, at 3:53, Matt Neuburg wrote:

> This is the same issue I’ve been complaining about for months. 
> Because of it, I’m still stuck back at 2.0rc10; anything after that 
> is unusable. I don’t understand why everyone else doesn’t feel the 
> same; maybe they all have only short non wrapping lines of code. Files 
> such as you and I use, where a line is a paragraph of text, show the 
> issue.  m.

I think I have acknowledged this, but it really is a design flaw that 
requires a new layout engine. I know you say it has gotten worse after 
2.0rc10, but I really can’t think of what has changed: Sometimes 
system API change behavior when linking with different SDK versions, 
although in this case, it would be weird, but it wouldn’t be the first 
time something like this has happened.

I have started work on new editor/layout engine, and work is going 
fairly well, already much improved speed compared to current release of 
TextMate (no issue with large files or long lines) and better unicode 
support, but there is quite a threshold to pass before it can replace 
the current shipping version, so I hope for some patience.

Support for LSP and related features is also closely related to this 
work and a high priority.