Psychadelic rendering in editor

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#314 opened on Mar 18, 2015 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Description

I think this happens on longer documents:

![screen shot 2015-03-18 at 5 44 33 pm](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/789577/6721033/e2959020-cd96-11e4-8cd4-b9c4032f8a8c.png)

Any ideas? Happy to dig into the implementation if someone can point me in the right direction.

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Research direction

No source file, test, or entry point is named. First reproduce the psychedelic rendering problem with a longer document and trace the macOS editor's rendering path; done means longer documents render normally without the reported visual corruption.

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Assessment

Tech stack: macos, objective-c
Domain: desktop
Issue type: Bug
Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Activity status: Stale
Clarity: Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness: 25/100