From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se
Subject: Re: Why I may not use emacs any more for coding
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:28:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JXsXq-0003bs-Qc@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18385.15701.931636.175130@lisa.zopyra.com> (message from Bill Lear on Fri, 7 Mar 2008 07:04:21 -0600)
>> effect this transition with such speed that my fingers need not pause
>> after the ESC key is pressed before I begin my input of navigation
>> keystrokes, whereas under an xterm if attempt this transition, it
>> seems (based on observation only) that this takes AT LEAST 500
>> milliseconds --- easily enough time to enter a half-dozen navigation
>> commands (up two lines and over four words: 'kkwwww'). Over the
>> course of a typical edit cycle, this interruption has become more and
>> more intolerable to me.
Is the annoyance limited to a delay in seeing the result?
Or does it execute your subsequent commands wrong?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-08 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-07 2:20 Why I may not use emacs any more for coding Bill Lear
2008-03-07 11:00 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-03-07 13:04 ` Bill Lear
2008-03-08 6:28 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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