[Terminal] slow text selection

[diver]

For example try to open some text file and select text with mouse, or try to Alt+a in Terminal with large output.

[jackburton]

AFAIK Terminal doesn't use BTextView, but you are right, it's slow in StyledEdit for example

[jackburton]

Interestingly, the problem doesn't show up in StyledEdit.

[jackburton]

This is a Terminal specific problem.

[wkornewald]

Is there any reason why we still use prefixes like "[Terminal]" in the summary instead of just selecting (or adding) the affected component and leaving the summary clean?

[jackburton]

hrev21524 seems to have fixed the problem. Although we might think about reusing BTextView for Terminal, instead of the own rolled implementation.

[axeld]

There are several reasons why the usage of BTextView is inappropriate currently:

• it does not support changing the background color per character
• it has one large text buffer and no hard character-level word wrapping

Of course we could extend BTextView, but I guess keeping the status quo isn't too bad either.