On Wednesday 30 June 2004 10:24, Gene Heskett wrote: >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... On further checking, neither is installed, and the moz checker is builtin. I've got yum doing an install ISpell but it seems to be hung (again), a restart says it scanned Freshrpms in addition to the usual FC1 repos, and didn't find an ISpell. -- 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.