diff --git a/docs/architecture/pagination.md b/docs/architecture/pagination.md
index 5bea1c6..1497db1 100644
--- a/docs/architecture/pagination.md
+++ b/docs/architecture/pagination.md
@@ -110,6 +110,15 @@ width. Every **widget** decoration therefore builds its DOM in a `toDOM` functio
 passed directly can only live in one of the two documents, and each view keeps taking it
 back from the other.
 
+**A pass keeps its spacers, and typing gets a pause.** The decoration set is mapped through
+every transaction (`apply`) and each spacer widget carries a `key` naming what it draws, so
+a pass that lands the same spacers keeps their DOM. Unmapped, an edit above them left every
+widget one position off and the view rebuilt all of them — measured at the top of a
+124-page document: 1.5 s a keystroke, 144 ms with the mapping. An edit within
+`EDIT_IDLE_MS` of the last pass waits for a pause in the typing (the first after a pause
+runs at once); a forced recalc or a layout-only write never waits. The dom run
+(`tests/dom/run.mjs`) holds the budget.
+
 **Layout constants** (must stay in sync between `pageBreaks.ts`, `Editor.svelte`, and `editor.css`):
 - `PAGE_HEIGHT = 1123px` (A4 portrait), `PAGE_GAP = 20px`, `CYCLE = PAGE_HEIGHT + PAGE_GAP = 1143px`.
 - Page height/width and margins are read **live** from CSS custom properties (`--user-page-height`, `--user-page-width`, `--user-margin-*`) so orientation/margin changes don't require new constants. `getCycle()` in `Editor.svelte` reads `--user-page-height` at runtime.
diff --git a/src/lib/editor/extensions/pageBreaks.ts b/src/lib/editor/extensions/pageBreaks.ts
index bede610..81d9cf1 100644
--- a/src/lib/editor/extensions/pageBreaks.ts
+++ b/src/lib/editor/extensions/pageBreaks.ts
@@ -315,6 +315,13 @@ export function isSplitPane(view: EditorView): boolean {
 // foot of the gap, which is the top of the continuation.
 type RowSpacer = { columns: number; close: string; open: string; header: { html: string; height: number } | null };
 
+// What a spacer's DOM shows, as the widget key: without one a fresh toDOM is a fresh
+// widget, and an edit near the top moves — and so rebuilds — every spacer below it.
+function spacerKey(p: { height: number; row?: RowSpacer | null }): string {
+  if (!p.row) return `s${p.height}`;
+  return `r${p.height}|${p.row.columns}|${p.row.close}|${p.row.open}|${p.row.header?.html ?? ''}`;
+}
+
 type Leaf = {
   el: HTMLElement;
   kind: 'atomic' | 'splittable';
@@ -380,6 +387,11 @@ export const PageBreaks = Extension.create({
     let decorations = DecorationSet.empty;
     let isUpdating = false;
     let rafId: number | null = null;
+    // Keys can come faster than a long document paginates: an edit within EDIT_IDLE_MS of
+    // the last pass waits for a pause in the typing; the first after a pause runs at once.
+    const EDIT_IDLE_MS = 150;
+    let idleTimer: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | null = null;
+    let lastPassAt = 0;
     let lastPlacementsKey = '';
     // The layout before the current one: two layouts can each imply the other (a block
     // below a float's overhang moves further than the model's spacer), so seeing the older
@@ -398,6 +410,9 @@ export const PageBreaks = Extension.create({
       state: {
         init: () => ({ recalc: 0, edit: 0 }),
         apply(tr, value) {
+          // The spacers follow the text until the next pass: left unmapped, an edit above
+          // them puts every widget one position off and the view tears them all down.
+          if (tr.docChanged) decorations = decorations.map(tr.mapping, tr.doc);
           const recalc = value.recalc + (tr.getMeta(FORCE_PAGE_RECALC) ? 1 : 0);
           const edit = value.edit
             + (tr.docChanged && tr.getMeta('addToHistory') !== false ? 1 : 0);
@@ -1780,7 +1795,7 @@ export const PageBreaks = Extension.create({
               spacerEl.style.userSelect = 'none';
               spacerEl.setAttribute('contenteditable', 'false');
               return spacerEl;
-            }, { side: -1 }));
+            }, { side: -1, key: spacerKey(p) }));
             if (collapsedTrailing) {
               decoArray.push(Decoration.node(collapsedTrailing.from, collapsedTrailing.to, {
                 style: 'height:0;min-height:0;margin:0;overflow:hidden',
@@ -1857,6 +1872,7 @@ export const PageBreaks = Extension.create({
           };
 
           isUpdating = false;
+          lastPassAt = performance.now();
 
           // A per-page restart counts within the page each anchor landed on, which only
           // this pass knows (notes.ts). Renumbering can rewrap, so it takes a pass of its
@@ -1876,9 +1892,15 @@ export const PageBreaks = Extension.create({
         }
 
         function schedule() {
+          if (idleTimer !== null) { clearTimeout(idleTimer); idleTimer = null; }
           if (rafId !== null) cancelAnimationFrame(rafId);
           rafId = requestAnimationFrame(calculate);
         }
+        function scheduleEdit() {
+          if (performance.now() - lastPassAt > EDIT_IDLE_MS) { schedule(); return; }
+          if (idleTimer !== null) clearTimeout(idleTimer);
+          idleTimer = setTimeout(schedule, EDIT_IDLE_MS);
+        }
 
         // Initial calculation
         schedule();
@@ -1895,10 +1917,11 @@ export const PageBreaks = Extension.create({
               // pm-pagecount — answer the last pass, so forgetting the ping-pong
               // memory on them would leave the guard with nothing to catch.
               if (forced || isEditTr) prevPlacementsKey = null;
-              schedule();
+              if (isEditTr && !forced) scheduleEdit(); else schedule();
             }
           },
           destroy() {
+            if (idleTimer !== null) clearTimeout(idleTimer);
             if (rafId !== null) cancelAnimationFrame(rafId);
             debugAccessors.delete(editorView);
           },
diff --git a/tests/dom/run.mjs b/tests/dom/run.mjs
index d517d83..e3f840a 100644
--- a/tests/dom/run.mjs
+++ b/tests/dom/run.mjs
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 // uncaught page error.
 import { join } from 'node:path';
 import { readFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
-import { ROOT, MOD, checker, previewServer, openApp } from '../browser.mjs';
+import { ROOT, MOD, checker, previewServer, openApp, settle } from '../browser.mjs';
 
 const PORT = +(process.env.DOM_PORT ?? 4185);
 const { check, failures } = checker();
@@ -181,6 +181,45 @@ try {
   }));
   check(hf.first === 'true' && !hf.running && hf.firstPage.includes('Titelseite') && /"header":1.8/.test(hf.dist),
     `the ribbon's header/footer switches reach the document (first page: ${hf.first}, running zone: ${hf.running}, distances: ${hf.dist})`);
+
+  // Typing latency in a long document. A keystroke at the top moves every page break
+  // below it, so this is where a whole-document pass costs the most: blocked main-thread
+  // time per keystroke in a burst, then the pass that follows the burst.
+  const LOREM = 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua'.split(' ');
+  const long = { type: 'doc', content: [] };
+  for (let i = 0; i < 1600; i++) {
+    let s = '';
+    for (let k = i; s.length < 300; k++) s += LOREM[k % LOREM.length] + ' ';
+    long.content.push({ type: 'paragraph', content: [{ type: 'text', text: s.trim() }] });
+  }
+  await page.evaluate((d) => localStorage.setItem('edentext-doc', JSON.stringify(d)), long);
+  await page.reload({ waitUntil: 'load' });
+  await page.waitForSelector('.tiptap', { timeout: 15_000 });
+  await settle(page, true);
+  const longPages = await pageCount();
+  // How long the page holds the thread: a zero timeout resolves once it is free again.
+  const blocked = async () => {
+    const t = performance.now();
+    await page.evaluate(() => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 0)));
+    return performance.now() - t;
+  };
+  await caretTo(1);
+  const keys = [];
+  for (const ch of 'The quick brown fox jumps') {
+    const t = performance.now();
+    await page.keyboard.type(ch);
+    await blocked();
+    keys.push(performance.now() - t);
+  }
+  let pass = 0;
+  for (const until = Date.now() + 4000; Date.now() < until;) pass = Math.max(pass, await blocked());
+  keys.sort((a, b) => a - b);
+  const keyMedian = Math.round(keys[keys.length >> 1]);
+  const keyMax = Math.round(keys[keys.length - 1]);
+  // The keystroke is the budget (a runner is slower than a laptop, so with room); the pass
+  // is what a whole-document layout costs, recorded for the day it goes incremental.
+  check(longPages > 100 && keyMedian < 300,
+    `typing at the top of a ${longPages}-page document: ${keyMedian} ms per keystroke (max ${keyMax}), ${Math.round(pass)} ms pass after the burst`);
 } catch (err) {
   check(false, `dom run threw: ${err.message ?? err}`);
 } finally {