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From: Noah Friedman <friedman@splode.com>
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Subject: Re: Version Non-control (was Re: Ebola vaccines)
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>> I've converted everyone to XEmacs and even the one or two diehard
>> FSFers are now happily XEmacing (AFAICT).
>
>The same goes for me.  In fact, the only thing that FSF does real
>better currently (from a user's perspective) are TTY redisplay
>optimizations.  For users with slow TTY-s, XEmacs is still a dubious
>solution.

That's exactly right.  That is the *only* thing holding me back from total
conversion to XEmacs.  That slowness overrides even the other vastly
superior things about XEmacs' tty handling (e.g. faces support,
simultaneous X/tty device support, etc).  I can live without those fancier
things because I've done so for almost 8 years anyway.  But I can't
tolerate redisplay that's even slower than vi.

I don't very often mention how much that small but significant thing stops
me from switching, because I'm just as capable of fixing it as anyone else.
I just haven't found the time.  Jamie says I should use it anyway just so
the slowness will nag at me until I actually do something about it.  :-)

