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From: rap@rap.ardent.com (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: apparent MEMACS speedup (was: Re: Unvalidated hard disk)
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Date: 12 Apr 89 16:26:22 GMT
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In article <5214@cs.Buffalo.EDU> ugkamins@sunybcs.UUCP (John Kaminski) writes:
>
>P.P.S. -- while I'm on the subject of editors, I couldn't BELIEVE the diff
>between microemacs distributed for extras 1.2 and 1.3!  What a speedup!

You might not have noticed that 1.3 runs Charlie Heath's FF (fast fonts)
and that, in itself, it responsible for a MAJOR speedup in the operation
of MEMACS.  I sometimes still run 1.2, simply for convenience (have not
found my favorite configuration for 1.3 yet, but I DID copy the new
MEMACS to my normal everyday 1.2 disk.  The speed is the same, just
a few more features (and a coupla bugs) added.  FF is what does the
speedup.  Come to think of it, I better copy FF to that oldie also,
why punish myself. (:-0

Rob Peck

[The bug I reported when 1.3 became official is an incorrect setting of
 Mark when you click where the cursor is already located; says "mark-set"
 but it turns out to be set 4-8 lines higher than where Point is now.
 To see the bug, double click on a character in your text file, then
 do a ^X^X (swap-dot-and-mark).  The cursor should not move but it does.
 This bug is in the first "distributed" version of the 1.3 Extras disk.]
 But I DO appreciate the new features (including switching windows via
 a mouse-select).