On Wednesday 30 June 2004 05:05, Jaakko H Kyro wrote: >On Tuesday 29 June 2004 18:53, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I don't know for sure that its just the kde email editor or more >> widely distributed. The builtin editor kmail has is the most >> commonly used editor here by a very wide factor, otherwise its >> vim, and I don't recall vim doing that unless the machine was >> busier than that infamous cat on the equally infamous tin roof. :) >> >> I'm currently running kernel 2.6.7-mm3 with "elevator=cfq", and >> the default anticipatory is just as bad in this effect. > >The speed variation comes from the automatic spellchecker. Try > turning it off. Humm, I can't find an on-off switch for it, (KMail-1.6.2) and when I click on spell-check, it reports that neither ISpell nor ASpell could be started, they are apparently not in my $PATH. However, I have had mozilla-mail ask me to correct what it thinks is bad spelling, so I know that it works there. Odd... -- Cheers, Gene There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved. ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.