From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Relevance of `baud-rate' in the 2020s?
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:09:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvimb1yof1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <833625l9wv.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 23 Oct 2020 09:43:28 +0300")
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-23 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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
2020-10-23 9:02 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-23 10:25 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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2020-10-26 13:01 Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
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