Re: Cursor movement screwy on remote sessions.

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>]

Ged Haywood <ged@jubileegroup.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi folks,

> First post, joined the list today for just this question.  Read the
> faqs, Googled etc, didn't see anything remotely related to this.

> I use emacs remotely all over the place.  One particular problem gives
> me great grief, only when using emacs remotely.

> The cursor doesn't reliably move to the place it's supposed to go to
> on the screen, with the result that you're inserting/deleting text at
> a place diffeent from the one you see on the screen until you refresh.

it's probably network delays (the escape sequence is read over too long
a time interval to allow the application to interpret it as one chunk).
I don't know what you must tweak in emacs to make this work (it's simple
with ncurses).

> I never have problems like this with Vi.  I hate Vi, but I'll go and
> scrub with carbolic now anyway.

vi usually has a longer timeout (and it's a settable value).
But it's susceptible to the same problem.

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