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From: toma@tekgvs.UUCP (Thomas Almy)
Newsgroups: net.emacs,net.micro,net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: MicroEMACS 3.7 response
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Date: Wed, 13-Aug-86 11:42:58 EDT
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In article <1774@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> rde@ukc.ac.uk (R.D.Eager) writes:
>I have mounted MicroEMACS 3.7 on my PC compatible ...
>My problem is that response to some commands (e.g. PgDn) is distinctly
>soggy. Is this true of all versions? just the PC version? Lattice C versions?

I noticed that too.  In order to run with brain-damaged display adapters
(which snow) on every line it waits for the next vertical retrace interval to
move the character.  Thus it takes 24 retraces (almost a second) for a 
complete screen rewrite.  If your display does not snow, just remove the
problem code from ibmpc.c.  It speeds up alot.

Also, when compiled with Microsoft C, most of the spawning operations just
plain don't work.  And control-P toggles the printer again.  I ended up taking
the code for the features I wanted that were new to 3.7 (incremental search,
modified C mode, new position display, quoting in search strings) and 
retrofitting them into the version of 3.6 that has a working spawn and
handles my display (EGA in 43 line mode).

Tom Almy
Tektronix