Re: Relevance of `baud-rate' in the 2020s?

[Stefan Monnier]

> In my remote corner of the world, I sometimes have periods of time
> that Internet crawls at 3KB/sec.

That sounds equivalent to the default value of `baud-rate` (19200).

> If I need to use Emacs on a remote machine during that time, this
> "obsolete" mode is very useful, because SSH sends more than just the
> characters I type.

What do you mean by "mode", exactly?
Do you mean you (setq baud-rate 2400)?

> So I definitely don't want it to become obsolete, let alone removed.
> If "baud-rate" is what bothers you, we can augment the name or
> documentation to explain when this is useful and why.

I think your use of the word "mode" above might be a good hint at how to
reword this functionality, e.g. something like `low-bandwidth-mode`.


        Stefan