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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Relevance of `baud-rate' in the 2020s?
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:21:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkAWdbDyU2AAL5Sd1PDtj3RdtL1zoYc7uFAjTMNJCfG8A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <833625l9wv.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> 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.

Thanks for explaining.  It wasn't obvious to me that there still existed
connections where this could be useful.  Now that I think about it, I
should probably have realized this.

Please forgive my attempt at being funny.

> If "baud-rate" is what bothers you, we can augment the name or
> documentation to explain when this is useful and why.

It could be useful, to avoid that others are left wondering like me.
OTOH, anyone can now search the emacs-devel archives and find your
explanation.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-23 10:21 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
2020-10-23 10:21   ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-10-26 13:01 Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez

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