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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se
Subject: Re: Why I may not use emacs any more for coding
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:28:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JXsXq-0003bs-Qc@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18385.15701.931636.175130@lisa.zopyra.com> (message from Bill Lear on Fri, 7 Mar 2008 07:04:21 -0600)

    >> effect this transition with such speed that my fingers need not pause
    >> after the ESC key is pressed before I begin my input of navigation
    >> keystrokes, whereas under an xterm if attempt this transition, it
    >> seems (based on observation only) that this takes AT LEAST 500
    >> milliseconds --- easily enough time to enter a half-dozen navigation
    >> commands (up two lines and over four words: 'kkwwww').  Over the
    >> course of a typical edit cycle, this interruption has become more and
    >> more intolerable to me.

Is the annoyance limited to a delay in seeing the result?
Or does it execute your subsequent commands wrong?
  




      reply	other threads:[~2008-03-08  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-07  2:20 Why I may not use emacs any more for coding Bill Lear
2008-03-07 11:00 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-03-07 13:04   ` Bill Lear
2008-03-08  6:28     ` Richard Stallman [this message]

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