Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus Torvalds <address@hidden> Re: log-buf-len dynamic

[Samium Gromoff]

At 09 Oct 2003 10:41:24 +0900,
Miles Bader wrote:
> 
> Robert Collins <address@hidden> writes:
> > > Most obnoxious attribute the tla sources, BTW...
> > 
> > Really? I never even noticed. (Mind you, I'm a compulsive full screen
> > editor myself.)
> 
> Under X, I prefer to use the screen real-estate for two windows
> side-by-side (which I find _far_ more useful use of the space than
> reserving it for an occasional long source line).  When I'm using
> something like emacs on a console-terminal, of course I don't have much
> choice other than to use 80 columns...

SVGATextMode is very much useful in this regard, since it allows to set
arbitrary textmodes with pleasant refresh rates...

Not sure if it works in !linux, though....

> -Miles
> -- 
> Come now, if we were really planning to harm you, would we be waiting here, 
>  beside the path, in the very darkest part of the forest?

regards, Samium Gromoff