From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:01:39 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87lj1c78rg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <8339nmwjf2.fsf@gnu.org> <87aahu30d5.fsf@escher.home> <8362sgv4zv.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298103384 14570 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2011 08:16:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 08:16:24 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 19 09:16:19 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqhzF-0003Zq-Cp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:16:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39893 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqhlQ-0006GI-Gy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:02:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52892 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqhlJ-0006EU-Sy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:01:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqhlI-0001Tc-Tq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:01:53 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36714) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqhlI-0001TK-O7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:01:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqhlG-0007BA-U7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:01:50 +0100 Original-Received: from p508ebf4e.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.191.78]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:01:50 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by p508ebf4e.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:01:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508ebf4e.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HMkF0sZf8gu4jqTAzxlvOzKx48M= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136210 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > There are many characters in the Unicode database, so slow machines > will take time generating the list, especially if that's the first > time you are invoking "C-x 8 RET". There are many pixels on the screen, and redrawing still finishes in reasonable time. Computers have become faster since the seventies. If this is a general problem of completion, tackling it will speed up a lot of user interaction. If it is a problem of getting the data (rather than turning it into a form fit for completion), it still might be possible to better batch that process. While "there are many characters" is likely an indicator that behavior is not quadratic or worse, that does not mean that it is beyond improvement. -- David Kastrup