27-Mar-02 at 08:33, Jeremy Blosser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > On Mar 27, Simon White [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Secondly, on a dialup link, it's too slow if you SSH somewhere and you > > have to /compose/ mail. For moving around the screen, even if you're good > > with vim (or whatever you set $THE_ONE_TRUE_EDITOR to) is not responsive > > enough. And if you have a connection that is fast enough not to notice > > that, you can probably download mail fast anyway. I SSH to my workstation > > from a fixed IP authenticated dialup connection at home and it's too slow > > to compose mail, although reading mail is quicker with Mutt than PINE > > running locally and just fetching mail from the server. This is largely > > due to the pager allowing faster browsing of mail. > > Weird. I used to do this all the time before I had DSL, and it was never a > problem. And the mail server I was connecting to was a 486 w/12M of RAM. > The initial connection was slow, but after that it was fine. > > Are you using SSH compression? It helps a lot.
How fast do you type? I'm at ~55wpm if typing easy mail where I don't think too much. Not sure if I had compression set. In any case, I don't like ANY delay between keypress and letter appearing on screen, since I'm not looking at the keys as I type, and if the display is constantly "catching up" it throws me right off. -- [Simon White. vim/mutt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] GIMPS:57.13% see www.mersenne.org] When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves. [Arbitrary quotes signature rotation, a simple bash script by Simon White]
