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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 09:31:14 -0400
From: Vinnie Shelton  <shelton@icd.teradyne.com>

 Hrvoje wrote:
> Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:
> 
> >  > That's exactly right.  That is the *only* thing holding me back
> >  > from total conversion to XEmacs.  That slowness overrides even
> >  > the other vastly superior things about XEmacs' tty handling
> >  > (e.g. faces support, simultaneous X/tty device support, etc).  I
> >  > can live without those fancier things because I've done so for
> >  > almost 8 years anyway.  But I can't tolerate redisplay that's
> >  > even slower than vi.
> > 
> > Some things aren't worth fixing.
> 
> But why bother with TTY support at all, then?  Redisplay optimizations 
> are quite basic thing.  If we don't consider them worth fixing, it is
> questionnable how much we care about TTY-s in general.

I think Hrvoje is right here.  Whenever I use XEmacs -nw, I'm reminded how 
abysmal the screen optimizations are.  (I think I heard Noah volunteer to 
fix them.)

vin

