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Re: Starting Emacs on Linux "frame-buffer" tty feels a bit scrappy
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
Re: Starting Emacs on Linux "frame-buffer" tty feels a bit scrappy |
Date: |
10 Jan 2007 18:44:14 +0100 |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:56:31 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
Hi, Richard!
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 03:14:16PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I think I have sometimes seen several of these whole-screen scrollings,
> with a different buffer displayed after each one.
>
> This seems to me somewhat unpolished and scrappy - indecent, even. The
> whole-screen scrollings seem to me most inappropriate - they are slow and
> computationally expensive.
> I wonder if some terminal command that Emacs thinks is very fast
> is actually executing very slowly. I suggest you make a dribble file
> to investigate what commands Emacs is sending.
Sorry, I don't understand your suggestion. I don't think you're talking
about `open-dribble-file', which records key sequences, since the
problem happens at start-up before I get to press a key.
Could you (or somebody else really good) please give me a more detailed
clue about how to look at this. Thanks!
--
Alan.