From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: gerd@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [levoy@cs.stanford.edu: Poor performance over DSL link]
Date: 09 Sep 2002 12:34:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5x8z2bo3iu.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15740.26119.925739.482991@electrolux.Stanford.EDU>
"Marc Levoy" <levoy@cs.stanford.edu> writes:
> Kim (and Richard),
>
> Thanks for the quick response. I had already seen those suggestions (turning
> off XIM, and disabling scroll bars, the menu bar, and the tool bar) on a web
> page. I tried all except turning off XIM, and it didn't help.
>
> As it happens, I finally realized (by watching the rhythm of the traffic)
> that Emacs 21's software blinking cursor was causing the traffic. I disabled
> it using:
>
> (if (fboundp 'blink-cursor-mode)
> (blink-cursor-mode -1))
>
> and the extra traffic disappeared. You might suggest this tweak to people
> with DSL (or slower) links.
We should add this to PROBLEMS.
Since the other suggestions mentioned there to improve performance can
be controlled via the Options->Show/Hide menu [PROBLEMS could mention
that], we might consider to add a menu item for controlling the
blinking cursor as well, e.g Option->Show/Hide->Blinking Cursor
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-09 10:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-09 0:21 [levoy@cs.stanford.edu: Poor performance over DSL link] Richard Stallman
2002-09-09 10:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-09-09 9:12 ` Marc Levoy
2002-09-09 10:34 ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2002-09-09 23:33 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-10 23:56 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-09-11 20:03 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-11 22:38 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-09-12 16:41 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-12 16:41 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <5xhegunctj.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk>
2002-09-14 17:35 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <15741.13832.457353.277778@dda.Stanford.EDU>
2002-09-11 1:40 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-11 9:04 ` Gerd Moellmann
2002-09-09 23:33 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-10 23:34 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-09-11 1:15 ` Miles Bader
[not found] ` <5xr8g0pcpv.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk>
2002-09-12 1:20 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-11 20:03 ` Richard Stallman
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