Mathematica plain text notebook

Question

Mathematica 7.0 uses about 50% of the CPU time on my laptop while in idle, and typing special characters like @ and [ too fast causes Mathematica to crash. Basically, the notebook can't keep up with the formatting and dies.

I would love to use Kate or a similar plain text editing program, and run it as a notebook via the terminal, and saving the output to a PDF or plaintext file.

Is there a text editor that can handle Mathematica syntax highlighting and indentation rules?

Answer 1

Your mention of "Kate" suggests that you are using Linux. There was a bug in the Qt libraries that shipped with Mathematica version 7.0 that caused this load problem on Linux.

See Reload this Page [SOLVED] Mathematica 7 slow under Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) . The thread is about Ubuntu Linux, but I had the same problem on openSUSE.

In that thread, there is a link to an updates library, posted by a Wolfram Research, Inc. employee. That link no longer works, but if you email Wolfram Research, Inc., perhaps they will provide you with the file.