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* Relevance of `baud-rate' in the 2020s?
@ 2020-10-22 21:11 Stefan Kangas
  2020-10-23  3:45 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Stefan Kangas @ 2020-10-22 21:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
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So there is this nifty variable called `baud-rate'.  It can be used to
enable some special display hacks if you are on a connection slower than
2400 baud.  It enables you, I guess, to run Emacs 27.1 on that spanking
new 1987 modem that you have just been dying to get your hands on.

Yet there has been a marked lack of interest in it.  :-(

I wasn't able to find any discussion about it on emacs-devel since 2005,
except for an honorable mention when Alan Mackenzie said in 2015 that
the parts in isearch.el that use it are "probably obsolete".

More seriously, is `baud-rate' still relevant in the next decade?
Should we make it obsolete in Emacs 28.1?

PS. To stir up some additional feelings, I've attached a patch that
    would remove the "probably obsolete" parts from isearch.el.

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* Re: Relevance of `baud-rate' in the 2020s?
@ 2020-10-26 13:01 Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
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From: Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez @ 2020-10-26 13:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

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Hi

Scenario: connect to Rasperry Pi through a serial interface.
I think it is quite significant here ;-)
/PA
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Fragen sind da um gestellt zu werden
Georg Kreisler

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2020-10-22 21:11 Relevance of `baud-rate' in the 2020s? Stefan Kangas
2020-10-23  3:45 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-23  6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 10:21   ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-23 11:05     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 15:09   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-23 17:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 18:32       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-23 19:30         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 20:44           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-23 20:55         ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-24  8:21     ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-10-24  8:57       ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-24  9:13         ` tomas
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