Re: slow input

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 04/02/2013 05:19 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 04/02/2013 06:09 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
> > Sure enough. I wonder how that has gone unnoticed by so many people.
>
> No one really cares about blinking the cursor to match parens? I'm sure
> it seemed like a cool feature at the time.

It's a nice feature in an editor.  At the command line though, don't know.

Anyway, it is definitely the blinking match parens that is slowing 
things down.  That is exactly how the GUI terminal behaves, and I can 
actually see the cursor bouncing back and forth now that I understand 
what I'm looking at.

So is the issue here then that the GUI is using a terminal emulation 
that has the blinking match parens on by default?  And the CLI version 
behaves according to the bug you've noticed.  It seems to be that 
blinking match parens randomly works at the shell, most of the time 
having been off whenever I've used Octave over the past couple years?

I suppose Rik's OS update has the bug removed so now his terminal works 
the way it was supposed to.  We all should have had

set blink-matching-paren off

in our .inputrc?

Dan