From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Why I may not use emacs any more for coding Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:28:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <18384.42609.332493.397051@lisa.zopyra.com> <18385.15701.931636.175130@lisa.zopyra.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204957745 8103 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2008 06:29:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 06:29:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se To: Bill Lear Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 08 07:29:32 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JXsYk-00048t-PM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:29:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXsYC-0004fv-Qc for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:28:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXsXv-0004SG-9M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:28:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXsXt-0004QL-Bc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:28:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXsXt-0004Q8-4J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:28:37 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JXsXs-0006ZJ-SW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:28:36 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JXsXq-0003bs-Qc; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:28:34 -0500 In-reply-to: <18385.15701.931636.175130@lisa.zopyra.com> (message from Bill Lear on Fri, 7 Mar 2008 07:04:21 -0600) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17684 Archived-At: >> 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?