Re: Relevance of `baud-rate' in the 2020s?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > In my remote corner of the world, I sometimes have periods of time
>> > that Internet crawls at 3KB/sec.
>> That sounds equivalent to the default value of `baud-rate` (19200).
> No, because when this happens, packets get lost.  Otherwise, how could
> a fast connection suddenly become so slow?

Right, the overall bandwidth is comparable but not the burstiness.

>> > If I need to use Emacs on a remote machine during that time, this
>> > "obsolete" mode is very useful, because SSH sends more than just the
>> > characters I type.
>> What do you mean by "mode", exactly?
>> Do you mean you (setq baud-rate 2400)?
> No, I mean isearch-slow-terminal-mode.

So you set `isearch-slow-terminal-mode` manually?

What do you think of removing `baud-rate` and replacing it with
a `low-bandwidth-mode` global minor mode?


        Stefan