From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Display slowness that is painful
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:15:52 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buok6cf8xrr.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mzhbd6kv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:52:00 -0500")
Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
> I'm confused. How does it make sense to display characters in \XXX
> format instead? Both methods produce gibberish (as one would expect
> of a binary file). So we might as well choose the gibberish that
> redisplays faster.
Because gibberish with a big "Gibberish" label (which is sort of what
the octal syntax is) is a lot more presentable, and looks less like
Emacs just fucked something up.
-miles
--
"Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're
just making him madder and madder." -- Homer Simpson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-01 5:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-27 22:31 Display slowness that is painful Richard Stallman
2006-01-31 5:10 ` Chong Yidong
2006-01-31 23:09 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-01 1:25 ` Chong Yidong
2006-02-01 2:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-02-01 4:52 ` Chong Yidong
2006-02-01 5:15 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2006-02-02 6:02 ` Chong Yidong
2006-02-02 4:15 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-02 4:50 ` Chong Yidong
2006-02-01 10:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-02-03 2:06 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-02-03 10:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-02-03 12:01 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-02-03 13:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-02-03 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-03 23:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-02-07 1:41 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-02-02 4:16 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-02 5:55 ` Chong Yidong
2006-02-02 6:12 ` Chong Yidong
2006-02-02 9:50 ` David Kastrup
2006-02-02 14:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-02-03 23:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-02 11:33 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-02-03 1:50 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-02-03 9:55 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-02-04 18:27 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-03 5:04 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-03 10:00 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-02-03 23:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-02-05 0:16 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-02-04 18:27 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-04 21:18 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-02-05 1:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-02-06 2:06 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-06 8:22 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-02-07 6:06 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-07 9:14 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-02-08 19:03 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-09 9:20 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-02-09 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-13 4:40 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-13 4:40 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-06 2:06 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-06 8:19 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-02-06 8:45 ` Miles Bader
2006-02-06 10:34 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-02-07 6:06 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-05 0:30 ` Miles Bader
2006-02-05 0:44 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-02-02 14:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-02-01 10:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-02-01 23:10 ` Chong Yidong
2006-02-02 4:16 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-02 10:37 ` Andreas Schwab
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-19 17:43 Richard Stallman
2006-01-31 5:07 ` Evil Boris
2006-01-11 18:58 Richard M. Stallman
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