Re: ha ha, only serious

Ray> XEmacs over the same link is a non-starter. An exposure Ray> event (?) Stephen> Can you be more specific about exactly what you do, and is this 21.5? Stephen> If it's just _one_ exposure event (eg, cover the frame partially with Stephen> another window, then close or iconify the covering window), do you see Stephen> this? (I don't think so, in 21.4, I'll check tonight.) The last time I tried this was several months ago. Ok, I started it up over a 128kbps DSL line. This is 21.5.9 on a Linux box. Took about 1.5 min to get the initial window to pop up, just over 3 min for the splash screen to get displayed. While I was waiting, each toolbar icon was drawn about 1 per second, and the toolbar was drawn twice. If I lower it behind another (mozilla) window and the raise it, each toolbar icon is drawn about 1 per second. The actual *scratch* window gets drawn pretty fast. Hmm, it seems to be faster than it used to be. I did switch DSL carriers just recently, so perhaps that was the primary cause. Loading and fontifying emacs.c is reasonably fast, even with the progress bar enabled. But sometimes when I do file-name completion, the toolbar is redrawn. And since it's 1 sec/icon, that's annoying. So, I take back what I said. If I turn off the toolbar, it's pretty good and quite usable. My original slowness must have been from my network route. Me culpa, Ray