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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
To: XEmacs Developers <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: TTY optimizations
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Hrvoje Niksic writes:
 > Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:
 > 
 > > Some curses libraries make no provision for output to multiple
 > > devices.
 > 
 > Configure could check what curses one uses, and use this feature only
 > on the capable ones.

But then there is the work involved.  We've now established that
non-curses code has to exist anyway.  Adding the code to drive
the curses library is more work.  Tricky work.  It might be more
work than it is worth given that 2400 baud modems are no longer
in widespread use.  I spent a couple of years using Gosling's
Emacs and later GNU Emacs over a 1200 baud "high speed" modem
connection.  The screen update optimizations were a dogsend back
then, not to mention fascinating to watch in action.  But who
cares anymore?

