Maybe this sounds silly, but have you tried to increase the keyboard repeat 
frequency in the system preferences. I once was silly enough not to.

___ Peter Hartmann ________



Am 23.01.2015 um 14:50 schrieb Charles Jenkins <cejw...@gmail.com>:

> For some reason, typing text on a Mac has always had a little bit of 
> friction: however the OS receives keyboard input, it doesn't seem to be able 
> to keep up as well as a PC. But lately, toward the end of Mavericks' lifespan 
> and now on Yosemite, it has actually become painful to type in text. I'm 
> excited about working on my app, but when it comes time to sit down and work 
> on it, I always feel noticeable dread about having to type code into XCode.
> 
> (Does anyone use BBEdit? Is it more responsive?)
> 
> I don't want to open a Mac-vs-PC debate, so let me say I've used Macs since 
> the advent of Jaguar and I'd never buy anything else for my primary, personal 
> use. I work on PCs all day at work, but I bought a Mac mini there and work on 
> PCs remotely through Jump Desktop because the Mac can handle my display 
> better. Year over year, my experience is that everything is better on a 
> Mac... except typing text. The PC just keeps up better.
> 
> I'm not just complaining here: I'm writing a word processor, so I'm concerned 
> about how to make my app more responsive.
> 
> I'm composing this email using Airmail 2, but it wouldn't matter what email 
> client I used. I recently switched from Sparrow, where I had exactly the same 
> problems. I have turned off Autocorrect and Check Spelling While Typing to 
> eliminate the significant pause that happens each time you finish a word and 
> hit the space bar. I just wrote a reply and still had regular hiccups as I 
> typed, so then I turned off Substitutions - Smart Links and Substitutions - 
> Text Replacement. Now typing flows better and I'm able to get more words 
> typed in before a pause. It's much better now, but there are still times when 
> the computer will seem to hang for a bit and then a group of ten or so 
> characters will all appear at once.
> 
> I am not a fast touch-typist, but post-Mavericks, it seems that in every new 
> app I have go go and turn off a bunch of text system features we Mac users 
> have come to rely on over the years in order to make typing at all bearable.
> 
> Is there anything I can do as a developer to make my app more responsive and 
> make typing flow better, other than defaulting the app to turn off as many 
> text features as possible or writing my own replacement for NSTextView?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Charles
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