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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
To: XEmacs Developers <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: TTY optimizations
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Hrvoje Niksic writes:
 > "Karl M. Hegbloom" <karlheg@inetarena.com> writes:
 > 
 > > >>>>> "Hrv" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
 > > 
 > >     Hrv> In fact, the above paragraph of mine was an understatement.
 > >     Hrv> TTY optimizations are mostly non-existant in XEmacs.
 > > 
 > >  I thought it used `ncurses', which handles that for you...
 > 
 > I don't think it uses ncurses in any sane way.
 > 
 > Regarding that, Karl has opened a good question -- why shouldn't
 > XEmacs simply utilize curses to do the ugly job of TTY optimization?
 > OK, some ancient systems still wouldn't optimize, but that looks like
 > a good solution to me.

Some curses libraries make no provision for output to multiple
devices.

