Re: isearch-lazy-highlight-initial-delay

[Miles Bader]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
> > How do we detect the situation in which it's ok to modify the system
> > baud-rate?  The only way I can think of is to pattern match against the
> > tty name, and that's obviously quite system-dependent.
> 
> Sorry, I don't understand.  IIRC, baud-rate is set (by some magic) on
> true tty's, including remote logins, to something that should quite
> accurately describe the baud rate.  On X, MS-Windows, MS-DOS, and
> other non-tty displays, bad-rate is arbitrarily set to some value that

The problem is that some `true' ttys are not really ttys, i.e., they're
ptys (or e.g., linux console ttys).  In this case the baud-rate is
totally bogus, but it's set by the system.  For instance on my system,
the console reports a baud-rate of 38400.

The original message was a request for a something which is basically
speed-dependent to be set based on whether emacs is running on a tty or
not; this is not reasonable because of the existance of ptys, which are
generally interfaces to much faster communication channels than is
apparent from their baud-rate.

-Miles