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From: sqrkl@csvax.liv.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Yawn ! Not more Emacs discussion...
Message-ID: <4197@csvax.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Jul 88 12:19:45 GMT
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Organisation: Computer Science CSVAX (VAX1), Liverpool University

In article <14243@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>,
 kennel@minnie.cognet.ucla.edu (Matthew Kennel) writes:
> 
> I quote from the INSTALL file of our gnu emacs distribution:
[lots of Emacs twaddle deleted]

I think the designers of Emacs are the ones who are brain-damaged.
Leaving aside the fact that their editor is one big joke to those who
like using PROPER editors, XON-XOFF is now the de facto standard for
flow control and any terminal (or emulator) not supporting XON-XOFF
should NOT be used.
   I make no guarantees about my terminal emulator being able to handle
output at 9600 baud without XON/XOFF because I have assumed that people
are intelligent to know that even a true VT100 can't keep up at that
sort of speed (esp. with smooth scrolling on !).

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