From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Relevance of `baud-rate' in the 2020s?
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 09:43:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <833625l9wv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmn1irDPj2D2fA77yhfWOa1jRZoDj-Y3B8aL_8NJXqU4RA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:11:40 -0700)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:11:40 -0700
>
> So there is this nifty variable called `baud-rate'. It can be used to
> enable some special display hacks if you are on a connection slower than
> 2400 baud. It enables you, I guess, to run Emacs 27.1 on that spanking
> new 1987 modem that you have just been dying to get your hands on.
>
> Yet there has been a marked lack of interest in it. :-(
>
> I wasn't able to find any discussion about it on emacs-devel since 2005,
> except for an honorable mention when Alan Mackenzie said in 2015 that
> the parts in isearch.el that use it are "probably obsolete".
>
> More seriously, is `baud-rate' still relevant in the next decade?
> Should we make it obsolete in Emacs 28.1?
In my remote corner of the world, I sometimes have periods of time
that Internet crawls at 3KB/sec. If I need to use Emacs on a remote
machine during that time, this "obsolete" mode is very useful, because
SSH sends more than just the characters I type.
So I definitely don't want it to become obsolete, let alone removed.
If "baud-rate" is what bothers you, we can augment the name or
documentation to explain when this is useful and why.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-23 6:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-22 21:11 Relevance of `baud-rate' in the 2020s? Stefan Kangas
2020-10-23 3:45 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-23 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-10-23 10:21 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-23 11:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 15:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-23 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 18:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-23 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 20:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-23 20:55 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-24 8:21 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-10-24 8:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-24 9:13 ` tomas
2020-10-23 9:02 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-23 10:25 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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2020-10-26 13:01 Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
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