jde considered harmful

Dear Bug Team! You need to hold back on some of the packages in the net installer. As a long time fan of xemacs I implore whoever is responsible for putting together the xemacs distributions to please remove jde ... this package, as wonderful as it may be, makes editing java files so slow it is embarrassing. What is happening, I believe, is that the semantic bovinator is munching away all my cycles. For a typical 300 line java source file on my Dell 1 gigahertz 1 gigabyte laptop running XP it takes a couple of seconds fontifying and then after the progress bar of fontification reaches the end. It just sits there sucking down cycles for perhaps 20 seconds more. I remove jde from my machine and everything is cheerfully snappy like it ought to be. I suspect jde is a wonderful package but right now it sucks very much, you really shouldn't be inflicting it on unsuspecting java programmers. jde (along with ada brief and edt and bog knows what else) gets installed by default using the wonderful net installer. You need to turn that stuff off! Regards Tom Howland ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 TSUNAMI 1.3.12(0.54/3/2) 2002-07-06 02:16 i686 unknown ./configure '--with-dragndrop' '--with-postgresql=no' '--with-x=no' '--bindir=/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-cygwin' '--with-site-lisp=yes' '--with-ipv6-cname=no' '--with-netinstall' XEmacs 21.4.9 "Informed Management (Windows [2])" configured for `i686-pc-cygwin'. 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