Do you have syntax highlighting on? I've seen huge speed-ups with large files when the editor doesn't have to try parse & highlight everything. I agree that it

Do you have syntax highlighting on? I've seen huge speed-ups with large files when the editor doesn't have to try parse & highlight everything. I agree that its annoying though. I've started writing my own text editor, and aim to solve this problem. Not quite at that point yet, however! https://github.com/gchp/iota https://github.com/gchp/iota /shameless plug