I'm trying to find a good HTML editor under Gnome, using Mandrake 9.1. I've been using KWrite, but I'd like buttons for formatting, images, etc. I've tried Bluefish, and it looks like it would be excellent -- just what I want in every way -- but it runs very, very slowly. Like 30 seconds for every text change. Is there any way to fix this?

I'm using a Pentium II 350 MHz with 256 MB RAM. OOo is slow to open, but when it's going, it runs very smoothly. KWrite doesn't hang at all, and I can even run pretty big movies in mplayer without hanging very long, but Bluefish is still slow as molasses.

I'd really like to use Bluefish as my main editor -- is there any way to get it to run faster?

Thanks in advance for any help.

well it works fine for me... what actually happens here? does it use up all CPU time? are there any messages when you run it from a console? make sure you're using the very newest version and all that...

Thanks for replying, acid_kewpie!

Okay, just tried running it from a console and checking the resources it eats via the Gnome system monitor. It only uses about 10 MB of memory, and sits at 0% CPU usage until I type something in. Then it jumps up to about 40%.

As for running it from console, I get the following warning:
It sounds like that could explain it, but I have not the slightest idea what it really means, nor how to fix it. Can I do anything about this?

Thanks in advance, again, for any help you can give.

hmm...also the syntax-hilighting might cause slowdowns...when I'm editing, for example, a po-file (gettext file), with syntax-hilighting on and remove a " from somewhere, it takes quite a big time (several seconds) before I can do anything (I haven't tried with small files...) so I guess it goes through the whole file with it's syntax-hilighting before letting me go further. it helps if I turn the syntax-hilighting off (somewhere in the menus?)...

I'm running a somewhat old machine too..