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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:01:04 PST
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- From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
- Sender: jwz%thalidomide@lucid.com
- Subject: Re: A few questions.
- References: <9211201906.AA13834@mc.com>
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- In message <9211201906.AA13834@mc.com> Gerry Pocock wrote:
- >
- > 1) When I move from screen A to screen B where screen A is on top of
- > screen B, screen B raises but the hidden contents of screen B are not
- > immediately displayed, there is a few second delay.
-
- The delay is probably because of swapping. Get more memory.
-
- > It appears to me that lucid emacs is attempting to access a terminal
- > upon startup, maybe via an ioctl.
-
- This is fixed; it will be in 19.4.
-
- > 3) When I hold down the cnt-n key, lucid appears to wait before moving
- > the cursor. The cursor position isn't updated until I release the key.
-
- Did you compile with optimization? All versions of emacs abort redisplay
- as soon as new user input appears; if the execution of C-n takes longer than
- the autorepeat speed, then you won't see any redisplay until you release the
- key. When emacs is compiled with optimization on a sparc (with lcc, at least)
- it's fast enough, but when it's compiled with -g, it sometimes isn't.
-
- I'm not entirely sure why C-n takes longer in lemacs than in other versions
- of emacs but it probably has something to do with the fact that we disabled
- the "direct-output-for-insert" and similar redisplay optimizations, because
- the emacs redisplay code really, really, really sucks, and that was the
- easiest way to make it stop crashing.
-
- > 4) One of the things I liked about epoch was the separate minibuffer.
- > It was nice having the minibuffer as wide as my terminal screen
- > without having to have individual screens as wide as the terminal
- > screen. Is this possible with lucid emacs.
-
- No. There's code in there, but it doesn't work. Feel free to make it work.
- I dislike detached minibuffers, so this is way down on my list.
-
- -- Jamie
-