Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 10:39:00 -0800 (PST) From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com&gt; 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). Yeah, but a full repaint isn't the worst case. If I'm remember correctly, you said that you saw it repaint without clearing the screen. I remember having a similar problem at a point when I was doing 14.4 and it was *seriously* painful. A redisplay without a screen clear can try to do `smart' updates like pushing partial lines around horizontally and end up taking far longer than a full clear and repaint. Rick