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Re: Cursor movement screwy on remote sessions.
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: Cursor movement screwy on remote sessions. |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:25:13 -0000 |
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tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.8 (sun4u)) |
Ged Haywood <ged@jubileegroup.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> First post, joined the list today for just this question. Read the
> faqs, Googled etc, didn't see anything remotely related to this.
> I use emacs remotely all over the place. One particular problem gives
> me great grief, only when using emacs remotely.
> The cursor doesn't reliably move to the place it's supposed to go to
> on the screen, with the result that you're inserting/deleting text at
> a place diffeent from the one you see on the screen until you refresh.
it's probably network delays (the escape sequence is read over too long
a time interval to allow the application to interpret it as one chunk).
I don't know what you must tweak in emacs to make this work (it's simple
with ncurses).
> I never have problems like this with Vi. I hate Vi, but I'll go and
> scrub with carbolic now anyway.
vi usually has a longer timeout (and it's a settable value).
But it's susceptible to the same problem.
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