One display-related task which seems especially slow

I use XEmacs 21.5b28 at work. When logged in from home I frequently connect to a running session using gnuclient. For most things that works reasonably well, but for various reasons my connection setup is pretty arcane and probably slows things down a bit. I use a fast cable modem Internet connection. To that add a VPN, then finally ssh. (I suspect VPN+ssh doesn't provide much more security than ssh alone, though slowing transmission down just the same. Still, I need the VPN for some things, like sending work email.) As I said, most things work okay. There is generally a substantial pause when I delete words however (kill-word or backward-kill-word). Rather unscientifically, I just killed a six-character word near the end of a short line which display-wise changed the line from echo "$output $lgpat" to echo "$output " Counting one-mississippi, two-mississippi, ... it seemed to take between four and five seconds to update the display. Yanking the word back from the kill ring or using undo to get the word back was nearly instantaneous. Deleting character-by-character either forward or backward was similarly fast. I don't recall kill-word being an issue when used locally. (I'm at home right now.) In no-windows mode (gnuclient -nw ...) kill-word is also fast. It's just in an X context that it's problematic. kill-region is also slow (e.g., set-mark, forward-word, kill-region). It seems odd that in this day and age of high speed connectivity we should have to worry about display performance of individual screen operations, but this one is particularly hideous. Any chance it can be improved a bit? Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro - skip(a)pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/ America's vaunted "free press" notwithstanding, story ideas that expose the unseemly side of actual or potential advertisers tend to fall by the wayside. Not quite sure why. -- Jim Thornton _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta