I'm running version 3.1.5 ($-=3567HRXZhiklms) on a relatively powerful HP machine. Recently we've been noticing that command-line editing seems to have become much slower. Obviously this isn't due to changing the zsh. Curiously, it seems to be worse on our new machine, which is faster and has much fewer processes running and much lower load average (<0.5). On both machines, it is now considerably slower than ksh, and I think this did not use to be the case. To test this, I simply use the automatic repeat to key in about 60 chars, then hit escape and try going back and forth with the automatic repeat of h and l. Any clues how it could have gotten slower? Why is the new machine slower than the old? Would a newer version of ZSH be faster or slower? NHA --- Norman.Azadian@Swisscom.com +41 31 342 8129 MC-TO-MIT-SWM-TSW Swisscom Mobile AG