Re: Very bad/slow redraw with vertical split.

[Thomas Adam]

Hello --

2008/10/24 Robin Lee Powell <address@hidden>:
>
> I'm playing around with vertical split.  I'm using Screen version
> 4.00.03jw4 (FAU) 2-May-06 on Debian.
>
> When I have vertical split on, less is slow.  *Really* slow.  So is
> more.  vim is OK.  When I say "slow", I mean that when I say "less
> file", it takes ~20 seconds for it to put the first screenful of
> data up.
>
> Any idea what's up?

It's a known caveat of vertical splits in screen.  Screen has to
continually redraw the region and so that slows things down.

-- Thomas Adam