Re: 21.0 TTY show-stopper
Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com> writes:
Hrvoje Niksic writes:
> The difference is that 21.0 will be unusable to the users on
> terminals. 21.1.1 might take some time to release, no?
I don't believe the editor will be unusuable, unless we're talking
about a _very_ slow terminal. At 9600 baud a full screen repaint
should take less than a second on average, two seconds at most if
the screen is absolutely full (rare).
Maybe I've had overly traumatic experiences or am misremembering
things, but I am fairly certain that XEmacs' lack of redisplay
optimization was totally frustrating. Fixing this was definitely the
first item on my XEmacs wish list at the time.
Instead of fixing the problem, we appear to be introducing *more*
redisplays. That is a bad trend, if you ask me. Perhaps not a good
enough reason to halt a release, but a bad trend.
And it only happens after you hit RET to exit the minibuffer, and
only with a split screen. (...)
These are not "only". As I said, in applications like Gnus and VM
screen gets to be split a lot, and yes, I do use the minibuffer very
very often, so I know I would be very annoyed if I were still using
terminals.
But I'm not, so I no longer have strong feelings about any of this.