Autzoo.261 hacknews utzoo!henry Wed Mar 11 00:09:19 1981 ed mailcheck optimized The editor's mailchecking can be a trifle slow when the mailboxes are quite a ways across the disk. So, I've made a couple of optimizations. First, the mailchecking action is now overlapped with user "think time", with the result announced before the NEXT prompt. Second, mail is checked only every N (currently 5) prompts rather than every time.