>>>> "nix" == nix 
<nix(a)esperi.demon.co.uk> writes: 
    nix> Hm. That's still not very clear, but I hope this rephrasing
    nix> makes it a bit clearer than it was. I tried to explain it in
    nix> the original patch postings, too: if you read all of these
    nix> together then some sense might emerge :)
I plan to do so.
    nix> Thanks for considering this at this late stage.
The other thing you might do is see if you can get the w3m people and
Bill P to sign off on "yes, this really does make things better" with
examples, or better yet, screen shots.  Sounds tedious even to me, and
it won't guarantee a decision either way.  But the more evidence that
there is visible (pun intended) benefit the easier it is to say yes.
> Yeah, well, there's already a bug report in, against 21.4.7
> Windows [1] which is the same code I put in.  :-( 
    nix> Damn :( still, until you've seen an NFS server with an
    nix> effective file transmission rate of 10K/s you haven't seen
    nix> slow. Anything that reduces file access from a box like that
    nix> is good. :)
Doesn't mean it won't go in.  It is likely that I'll rewrite it as an
option, and possibly default it to off.
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