From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 18:12:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 387D737B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:12:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 31876 invoked by uid 100); 23 Jan 2001 02:12:23 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14956.59527.602641.963097@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 20:12:23 -0600 (CST) To: Steve M Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: OT: Editing problems on Linux (Was: FreeBSD vs linux (some venting)) In-Reply-To: <20010122215640.12072.cpmta@c004.sfo.cp.net> References: <20010122215640.12072.cpmta@c004.sfo.cp.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve M types: > On Mon, 22 January 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > To that I would respond by saying the following. > Every chracter that I type on my Linux box my hard > drive on the computer has to 'grind' like as if it's etching > another character on it's medium. > Since Linux touts to be one of the best OS's wouldnt > it stand to reason that I should expect more from it? > Or atleast not something that I would expect an NT > machine to do? Depends on what you're using to edit text. If you're using an ASCII editor and getting that behavior, then something is seriously wrong somewhere. If you're using a WYSIWIG editor with a scalable font in nonnative format and some screwy point size (so that it has to scale every character), then it may just be poor design in the text editing system. Such things can be solved, but this isn't the place. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message