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From: erlkonig@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Christopher North-Keys)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: How to make Emacs keep quiet?
Keywords: emacs
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Date: 25 Aug 89 04:42:25 GMT
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Reply-To: erlkonig@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Christopher North-Keys)
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Quoted from Johan Vromans:
v> Yesterday I upgraded Emacs 18.50 to 18.54 on a ICM32-2, to find
v> that one of the most annoying features of that (possibly broken) 18.50
v> version had disappeared: keystrokes were echoed immedately instead of
v> after a small pause. Could it be that the original poster has been
v> bitten by this bug?

I'm assuming Johan is speaking of keystroke sequences rather than
delays at text input.  If I'm wrong, don't bother reading the rest.

Still here?  Fine.

This feature prevented those who knew what they had typed from having
to look at it anyway.  The principle appeared to be to only echo
when the user seemed to forget what he what doing, or the correct
sequence to accomplish it.  The only time I ever see the echo is when
I've just miskeyed a sequence and need to see what was entered before
continuing.   Nice on a slow terminal.

I'm still running under 18.52, so I'm saddened to hear that delayed
echo may have been omitted.  Assuming that this loss is not a bug,
has anyone else seen it and if so is there a way to achieve the more
conservative delayed effect?

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