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List:       vim
Subject:    RE: XWindows: what's vim doing?
From:       Jeff Walker <jwalker () matchlogic ! com>
Date:       2000-10-31 19:21:17
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Sounds like Xvnc... am I right?  Do I win a prize?

I use it everyday all day.  I love it.  bit slow, but not compared to pc
viewers.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Galyean, Martin: [mailto:mgalyean@tosco.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:45 AM
> To: 'vim@vim.org'
> Subject: RE: XWindows: what's vim doing?
> 
> 
> X is designed with a faster connection in mind.  It will be 
> slower over a
> modem.  Much.  There are people looking at this from various 
> angles.  Can't
> recall the name right now but there is new project using a 
> java client that
> is much faster and cross platform.  No session specific info 
> is stored on
> client side ('your' side, not in x sense of 'client'), so you 
> can literally
> start a session at one location and finish it at another 
> quite seamlessly.
> I'll look it up and post.
> 
> Marty
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Albert Schueller [SMTP:schuelaw@whitman.edu]
> > Sent:	Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:40 AM
> > To:	vim@vim.org
> > Subject:	XWindows: what's vim doing?
> > 
> > Tue Oct 31 09:39:42 PST 2000
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've noticed that when I'm logged into my office machine 
> from home (over
> > a 33.3K modem) there's a significant start up delay, in vim5.7 in an
> > xterm.  It appears to only happen when I'm using X windows 
> at home (i.e.
> > not on the MS Windows side through teraterm ssh).  I 
> suspect that vim is
> > setting up some X stuff when it detects an xterm and over a modem it
> > must be slow, but what exactly is it doing?  I'd like to 
> have it not do
> > whatever it's doing in certain cases, like composing email 
> etc, or cache
> > the information if it's always the same.
> > 
> > Albert
> > 
> > -- 
> > Albert Schueller                                 Department 
> of Mathematics
> > Office Phone:  509-527-5140                      Whitman College
> > Public Key:  http://carrot.whitman.edu/gpg.key   Walla 
> Walla, WA USA 99362
> 

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