From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Breakpoint ignored.
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:20:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34opvhh95.fsf@hase.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Mzi9F-0002cy-0T@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:39:01 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> You are probably missing the fact that Emacs tries to optimize the
> case of insertion of a single character.
>
> This optimization was very important in 1985.
> But computers are much faster now.
It's more than about speed. It also about making useful undo
boundaries, and this feature should not be killed.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-19 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-18 2:55 Breakpoint ignored Óscar Fuentes
2009-10-18 4:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-18 14:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-18 18:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-10-19 2:39 ` Richard Stallman
2009-10-19 3:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-19 6:22 ` Miles Bader
2009-10-19 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-19 22:53 ` Richard Stallman
2009-10-20 0:59 ` David Kastrup
2009-10-20 1:44 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-10-20 2:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-21 4:58 ` Richard Stallman
2009-10-19 3:35 ` Daniel Colascione
2009-10-19 9:20 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2009-10-19 13:21 ` Stefan Monnier
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