On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 05:12:36PM +0100, Juergen Vigna wrote:
> > - typing in cells is awfully slow. This is probably worse due to
> > purify overhead, but I do not see a slowness when typing in a normal
> > paragraph. I suspect something wrong happens here (does anybody
> > knows how to use quantify?).
>
> Well you have to say that if you type inside a table and the column width
> changes you just do the same update n=visible cells the time as you do in
> the normal paragraph, because the tabular has to redraw completely!
> I don't see it here right now, but OK I'm using a PIII 800 and a Matrox G200
> #:O)
Juergen, although you said you fixed the excessive repainting problem, it
still exists: after insertion of a char the current cell is redrawn 3 times,
while the other cells are redrawn 2 times.
This explains why editing in tables is so slow.
