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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Amiga is loosing ground to I*M and A*ple...
Message-ID: <12358@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 88 15:50:10 GMT
References: <253@aeras.UUCP> <4517@cbmvax.UUCP> <429@gt-ford.gtisqr.UUCP>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <429@gt-ford.gtisqr.UUCP> rick@gtisqr.UUCP (Rick Groeneveld) writes:
>	While WP _is_ a very powerful word processor, it is
>	also, painfully ssssslllllooooowwww!

Compared to what?  It's hardly fair to compare it to a speedy text
editor such as dme, since it does so much in the way of continuous
formatting, etc.  Compared to other *word processors* I find it quite
responsive.

Some hints:  

  Don't open lots of windows.  It's nice that you can do it, but it
  slows things down a lot.

  Use FastFonts or BlitzFonts.  It speeds up text scrolling and display.

  Don't use a SunMouse-type program.  (By SunMouse-type program I mean
  DMouse, Mach, or HeliosMouse.  SunMouse itself is a clumsy hack.)
  When WP opens a requester, it does it in a seperate window.  Any
  input in the main window causes WP to automatically activate the
  requester window.  This is a nice feature for non-SunMouse users.  If
  I have Dmouse activated, and a WP requester pops up, WP and Dmouse
  fight each other at every input event, and moving the mouse is
  extremely sluggish.  I simply disable that feature of Dmouse when I
  run WP.

  For the slightly more adventurous, use Matt's mwb to put WordPerfect
  on its own custom screen.  I bet you could even specify a slightly
  larger screen and get a full 80 columns, even if your workbench
  screen is normal sized, but  I can't swear to this, since I normally
  use morerows.  In any event, putting WP on it's own screen seems to
  speed up intuition stuff.  (Hm, I wonder if specifying a 1 bitplane
  screen would work?  It might make some requesters or menus
  unreadable.  I'll have to try.  That should speed it up even more.)



[Hmm, this whole article reads like a Matt Dillon commercial, doesn't
it?  Oh, well.  It's not.  Nor is it a WordPerfect commercial.]


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