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From: Sudish Joseph <sudish@mindspring.com>
Date: 09 Dec 1996 01:28:57 -0500
In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 08 Dec 1996 21:58:56 -0800
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Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
>>>>>> "John" == John Turner <turner@xdiv.lanl.gov> writes:
John> I do use both lazy-lock and func-manu, which some have pointed to as
John> possible reasons for my need for fair hunks of iron to use as Emacs
John> engines.

> Yup.  Before I switched machines, I used a 66MHz Cyrix486 with 32MB of
> RAM and it worked just fine.  But I use fast-lock not lazy-lock, and
> only have func-menu enabled by keystroke.  I also avoid having more
> than 1 frame displayed of large numbers of mousable extents (like
> dired, Gnus *Topics*/*Summary*, *Compilation*, etc.).

I think that defeats the whole purpose of using XEmacs for me.  One of
the things that made me switch was that XEmacs is so fast at frame
creation.  GNU Emacs gets dog slow at frame creation once you create
lots of colors.

Also, lazy-lock and func-menu are things I find extremely useful
(well, I'd prefer imenu, it handles more than just functions).  I bet
others do, as well.  They are useful enough for people to consider
switching to GNU Emacs just to use them on machines where XEmacs
cannot run fast enough.

A co-worker asked me the other day if speed was on the agenda for
19.15 and when it was going to be released -- he was seriously
considering a switch to 19.34.

In general, there's no point in having all these neat features if they
can't be used in normal everyday work.

-Sudish

