Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!mupsy!liv-cs!sqrkl 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 Lines: 26 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 !). Richard K. Lloyd, ****** This is a VAX 11/780 running VAX/VMS V4.5 ****** Computer Science Dept., * JANET : SQRKL@UK.AC.LIV.CSVAX * Liverpool University, * UUCP : {backbone}!mcvax!ukc!mupsy!liv-cs!SQRKL * Merseyside, England, * Internet : SQRKL%csvax.liv.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu * Great Britain. ******************************************************* "My opinions and those of the University of Liverpool are completely unrelated, so I'M THE CULPRIT if you feel offended by the above message - I just can't help moaning about Atari STs, PCs or clones, U**X, C, IBM mainframes, the list is endless..."