From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Skip Montanaro Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Cursor movement key repeat painfully slow when text selected Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 13:14:49 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1492020928 28882 195.159.176.226 (12 Apr 2017 18:15:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:15:28 +0000 (UTC) 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 20:15:24 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 1cyMnZ-0007KB-6v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 20:15:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45736 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cyMnf-0006P5-16 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:15:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52721) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cyMn8-0006P0-KK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:14:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cyMn7-00072l-Sl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:14:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-io0-x233.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c06::233]:33161) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cyMn7-00072G-Lo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:14:53 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-io0-x233.google.com with SMTP id k87so34237451ioi.0 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:14:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=sl4TNyfxOyx77SiDKRyGCPbz2L/ztrIt2agHF3B+HHI=; b=cWlmn8ycTw9fu1v8YPcKKb8F4fKb1xS8DHJGHzD/mLsYgP8Srw3LIXZUBh8D+mUiwa xAgQAli9vRV81vXxtuobUxWTwgNGNz7mM1rhpk4v6porGGep0E6S9Y+tVA5EhX/gYTMV KL8vRnz5mRDe1OXfs85hTf5ae3498csyqhtI21lxseSMCG52fdt5jAiQBD2r2e8EnGSx yfPNIhlO9AEKksBkdLyoYAYXPrqUNQvWn9mEbI6MPrEMV0T/zJYyD3R8hyWQ/Ax9ArBK Fn13kaTigsckF286Wp0fxRrNHfSmBG87Khg67eeNqwxVcUMRkgbtLN5qKtJA+Qnfo4XR eTzQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=sl4TNyfxOyx77SiDKRyGCPbz2L/ztrIt2agHF3B+HHI=; b=Ad9VVte0o0CErGUZMcZ2Evjg8eaYwa2mqbrwtwSTVyrkM6SNrPziTuDl5MVjlUvhlf kQwN6bjjLo51YKUCsLB8o8UvXT2rA2jFEN5Vqo8MFhRNursfE8eF7iddHU6QehHSfB6a omPZG+wWhwVbakFkdIFo4Lbg1M9txFdrR3SK978haUCqPQ6PrbHG1s0XABjrrxChKMC5 IOCnU8i149fYJi0BPgRn3UdHD7ZQIxSiEwV7FextX+FzW2yTCGsJsDgfin97mSmvRlwG JxBQWc1OomOiLQTwOQsQWNCCwGqY9RFgZHCgxhmGQ9M8pnWg2c4GUOjTWBwsmMFUuybU sQyA== X-Gm-Message-State: AFeK/H3pGiJsFNmk1O7RmxURDJRFYhTHc/Q4nLRtwclWVasmosQ9O2kMYqBKcfTaWcYl9J5PcLwQfqr3rXjZ0A== X-Received: by 10.107.176.79 with SMTP id z76mr67111762ioe.223.1492020890149; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:14:50 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.107.18.38 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:14:49 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4001:c06::233 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:112754 Archived-At: 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. Thx, Skip Montanaro