From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: hector Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cursor movement key repeat painfully slow when text selected Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:16:42 +0200 Message-ID: <20170412191642.GA3254@workstation> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1492024911 21318 195.159.176.226 (12 Apr 2017 19:21:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 19:21:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 12 21:21:48 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cyNpq-0005R9-Uc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:21:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45901 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cyNpw-0007Qe-OP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:21:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41594) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cyNpC-0007QF-1q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:21:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cyNoh-0001zt-Cv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:20:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wr0-x22f.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c0c::22f]:35417) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cyNoh-0001z4-61 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:20:35 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wr0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id o21so23443487wrb.2 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 12:20:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:date:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=Q9tPy7ekoXy0X36i33Kja3cTtgrINPAJYkaUH7frN7o=; b=oaFSEhwlBb35V4/ZqGnye9le2Gys7bmD+VEGZes9u4KM5+qz9dggj0XYM/FATGqKDH kyW1uweJCHyFm/oqpyUX/ilQJJEH4Db5zy7sLWcCMZhGCdllW1YLhusWD9p/OM0dk92j kZlHkz3AFWRXs+ymgfwdRrLbpLwtojhus0jfKPpw+6+itDL1WmfMvYEv27cRdf0eOGHI FuIHzupHkdq64LAjHS29L8C1KM2ahYjoRHDjGfcEpq09KMqVgABACX+L31x2TXoxzyDo T1+IOkFgng1LMpbwt/SRGqPzpwN3gqp1ZVTM6ZIHeHi+nvX9j1/z8dwc1bWF3Wx2m30j p8QA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:date:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to :references:mime-version:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=Q9tPy7ekoXy0X36i33Kja3cTtgrINPAJYkaUH7frN7o=; b=tt5ceT526F2k3y6x2of/iyBd35dtDBy2vspUaoZ6sDhBxV4M13BuoKUJd1I8fJdBOH Gvn/f0V+hIJDG1bZG9IXMNmCTT3ypapBAhtpbdUdgFuZlmq0ym34qeomhGxBJdJMDZlZ NuIwG8CcilSEkRceUDOlGXXVk3wIXsTKipp/q4mHyALJwgHRsaqdK0OcPdx+CI85VSmv 9hIstI43OIxEIlhSiPB2nmzZIhW0Erbcd5tbUu7oL0Ujt5Ziv1k4/AFM/uIPnnAu77qn AXFMg/VAQpvY5bJuKM8XIwu+sdWSAfWdTn284PYofJRlZP/0SheFqpjfPDpwxZ3eoQRp Tw/w== X-Gm-Message-State: AN3rC/4yazosHaiN0Nw7eACd2rLbM8OHzHjafu48U3dT7Zpg6lFeazpF+Bhjzcv5gC4wiA== X-Received: by 10.223.163.18 with SMTP id c18mr4733573wrb.70.1492024832347; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 12:20:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from workstation ([47.63.121.28]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l141sm7682071wma.32.2017.04.12.12.20.31 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 12 Apr 2017 12:20:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Original-From: hector Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c0c::22f X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112755 Archived-At: On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 01:14:49PM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote: > I work in an environment where my desktop computer runs Win 7 and I > use PuTTY to connect to the Linux hosts on which I actually do > software development. When I get to a dev host, I run a GUI instance > of Emacs. It comes up in its own X window. Everything's fine until I > select some text. Emacs helpfully changes the background to indicate > the region between point and mark which is currently selected. If I > hold down any cursor movement keys (arrows, C-p, C-n, etc) cursor > movement grinds to a halt. I suspect the basic problem is that the > Xming X11 server is a dog. > > Is there some way to make the highlighting of the selected region > lighter weight (maybe just highlight mark and point or just mark) so > less work needs to be done by the server to keep the display updated? > Unfortunately, PuTTY and Xming are a given. I have no ability to > replace them with anything more efficient. I like the old emacs behaviour with no transient mark mode. (M-x transient-mark-mode). After all you can always know where the region is with exchange-point-and-mark.