Monodevelop extremely laggy when typing

Monodevelop version 2.8.2
Mac OS X 10.7.1
Macbook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3

When typing in a .js file, which happens to be over 800 lines long, the app lags up and takes a few seconds to show what I typed. Here's a video of what I'm experienced. I start typing at about 5 seconds and it doesn't show up until 1:00. However, shorter files do not exhibit this issue. I also noticed that the CPU gets hit hard.

Any help would be appreciated

Video Link
Activity Monitor Screenshot

 

Monodevelop is extremely laggy at everything. Size exacerbates it.

 

Im also experiencing similar issues with C# scripts, with scripts that are not even a few hundred lines long. I have bug reported it with video examples and MD logs.

Your best best is to take your videos and Bug Report the issue and include the vids in the bug report. Bug reporting here on the forums won't help to get your MD issues fixed.

Cheers

 

Noted and bug report submitted.

Does anyone have suggestions on good alternatives to MonoDevelop? with similar features?

 

Yes,

Visual C# 2010 or Visual C# Express (free)

Works great for me.

 

I'm actually looking for something that works on the Mac. But I agree with you that the Visual ____ line of products are great on Windows.

 

Notepad++ has a build for Mac.

It's even possible to have Unity point to Notepad++. It's also possible to have Notepad++ "learn" a custom API so the auto-completion works.

 

Like this: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/45163-Replacing-UniSciTE-with-Notepad

 

Version 1.5 of TextMate is pretty awesome and there is a Unity bundle floating around somewhere in this forum. TextMate 2 alpha is out (for owners of 1.5) and it super awesome, but not bundle for Unity yet

 

I remembered that I used to use BBEdit for web development and decided to give that a shot for now. (Although I'm having trouble figuring out autocompletion)

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll give each of them an honest try and see what I like best.

 

Is it just me, or is Mono-Develop slower than the things you develop in it? <- Kinda sad

 

Monodevelop is lagging for me too, what gives? Isn't it just a fancy notepad ??

 

Don't know if it will help but you can disable a bunch of stuff in the Add-In manager menu.

 

Ran into this issue today and found a fix:

disable the git integration in MonoDevelop

Tools > Add-in manager > Version Control > Git Support > Disable

Hope that helps!

 

JoeysLucky22's has worked for me in the past. Though on Mac the Add-in Manager can be found under "Monodevelop-Unity"

Also, turning off "Aggressively trigger code completion list" has improved performance on my older Mac (Monodevelop-Unity -> Preferences -> Text Editor -> General )

 

Thanks GameDevMig. I came back minutes later to post that but you already beat me to it!

Disabling "Aggressively trigger code" seems to have completely solved the issue so far. (fingers crossed)

PC users: Tools > Options > Text Editor > General > Coding > Aggresively trigger code completion list (disabled)