slow delay updating screen when typing text in long paragraphs with syntax highlighting switched on

[Anoop]

Binary package hint: gedit

When using gedit 2.30.4 with syntax highlighting (e.g. LaTeX), there is a delay in updating the screen when typing long paragraphs. There is no problem when syntax highlighting is switched off. This mainly affects my LaTeX work because with programming languages (e.g. Python or R) the lines are short. This occurs both on GNOME 2 and Unity using Ubuntu 11.04 (also was a problem with Ubuntu 10.10 and gedit 2.30.3).

No problem with gedit 2.30.0 on Ubuntu 10.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gedit 2.30.4-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun May 15 20:20:05 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate i386 (20100928.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (15 days ago)
XsessionErrors: (<unknown>:11609): Bonobo-WARNING **: Bonobo must be initialized before use

[Louie (louie-savva)]

I have noticed slowdown in input to long LaTex paragraphs in Gedit. It does not occur in plain documents and is less noticeable in shorter lines. It can be quite painful.