> On Jan 23, 2015, at 5:50 AM, Charles Jenkins <cejw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
I don't see this problem. I'm quite a fast typist, and apps don't have trouble
keeping up. In particular, there's not a "significant pause that happens each
time you finish a word".
I have very occasionally seen Xcode get sluggish, but I could resolve it simply
be relaunching Xcode. (My hunch is that it was some Xcode bug where a
timer-based task starts running after every event and taking too much time.)
I'm guessing you either have very old hardware, or too little RAM, or some kind
of extensions installed (input methods?) that are monitoring keystrokes and
doing too much work.
The way I'd troubleshoot this is to go to Terminal, enter "sleep 2; sample
TextEdit 5", immediately switch to TextEdit and type as fast as you can for 5
seconds. Then look at the sample and see where the time is going and if
anything looks suspicious ("-[NSAKeyLogger checkForTerroristKeywords:]" maybe…)
—Jens
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