spastic response to keyboard input

Dear all,

Thanks for Amaya. In many ways, it's a fine product.

However, for what it's worth, from my perspective Amaya is let down by those
vexing delays when one types characters or uses the backspace keys. I am
always erasing characters that I don't intend to erase. Worse yet, there
appears to be some kind of race condition manifested by several words just
disappearing from the document - being overwritten by something that I am
typing. Furthermore, the scrolling in Amaya is so jerky that I often have to
try several times before I can get the browser to window the portion of the
document that I need to work on. Unfortunately, simple things like keyboard
response are often more important than an extensive feature set if one has
to use the tool to produce product.

Many things about Amaya appear to be really well thought out so I am
surprised that it doesn't get the fundamental editor stuff right.

PS: I am working on an SMP machine. I don't know if that might matters.

PPS: I have managed to put Amaya to useful work. See 

http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/base/R3-14/7-docs/CAref.html

PPPS: I recently upgraded to Amaya 9.2.2 and I can say that the jerkky
response is as bad as ever in that version although I'm not certain that the
worse problem where several words get obkliterated is still present.

Jeff

Received on Wednesday, 26 October 2005 07:42:27 UTC