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From: anthony@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Running emacs over telnet
Message-ID: <2956@moondance.cs.uq.oz.au>
Date: 15 Mar 90 01:36:15 GMT
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I've been using telnet to login on Suns and I run emacs 
on the suns.
In emacs the "^f" key is the forward character key, if
I hit "^f" several times, the cursor takes a long long time to catchup.
A lot of you would say emacs run slower than vi but the strange thing
is hitting "^b" for backward character is actually quite fast.  This
seems very strange to me, I mean if emacs is generally slower then vi
then you would expect "^b" to be as slow as "^f".  

Are there any variables that I can set in emacs that will solve this 
problem ?
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Anthony Lee (Humble PhD student) (Alias Time Lord Doctor) 
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SNAIL: Dept Comp. Science, University of Qld, St Lucia, Qld 4067, Australia