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From: paulk@lotus.com (Paul Kleppner LID-02264)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 2.0 Terminal bug?
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.153220.23776@lotus.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 15:32:20 GMT
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Reply-To: paulk@lotus.UUCP (Paul Kleppner)
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As best I can determine, the problem with Terminal is 
that it repeatedly enables and disables the Steal Keys
menu item on *every* keystroke when the Shell menu is open.
You can see this clearly if you run Terminal in ShowAllWindows mode,
like this:

	Terminal -NXShowAllWindows

Notice that the Steal Keys menu item flickers on each keystroke.
I believe that all this redisplay is leading to the slowness.

This is a big problem on the 68030, but not really noticible on the 68040.
I've sent in a bug report to NeXT (tracking #12791).  The best thing
for now is just to keep the Shell menu closed.

Paul Kleppner
Lotus