Re: fix for redisplay!
Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk> writes:
At 19:04 10/09/98 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
>The redisplay rewrite is not alive, because Joel's company quit the
>project. There was an explanatory message to this list some time ago.
>However, his ideas are still good ones (or so it would seem to me),
>and rewriting the redisplay should be an interesting project.
My $0.02 - I don't think we should ever do this unless we have
someone working on it full time. Chuck spent a long time getting the
current one right and fast. There's no way we are going to duplicate
that effort unless there is someone in the know doing it the whole
time.
Well, Chuck is no longer around to fix it, and we still use his
redisplay. I agree about working full-time, though.
And I still don't find redisplay that slow.
Have you ever tried using GNU Emacs and comparing them? Or, do you
use the more advanced XEmacs features such as inlined graphics, as in
Customize and W3 buffers? For me, the redisplay is horribly slow in
many such cases. Also, redisplay can't handle TTY optimizations at
all, which is a real embarrassment.
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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