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Re: is it really worth the time to go from vi to emacs?

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From: Kai Grossjohann
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 00:00
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>>>>> %% brucet@leviathan.engr.sgi.com (Bruce A. Templeton) writes:

  bat> Then you must not read news with emacs, that's what really
  bat> grinds it to a halt for me.

>>>>> On 29 Jun 1996 23:52:09 -0400, psmith@baynetworks.com (Paul
>>>>> D. Smith) said:

  Paul> Odd, I have no problems whatsoever reading news with GNUS 5.x
  Paul> and font-lock.  And I have the most aggressive angry fruit
  Paul> salad fontification turned on, with full attribution
  Paul> fontification, etc.

I find that entering large groups (> 100 messages) takes its time.
Now that I've reverted back to the default summary line format, it's
better, but back when I included the date in the summary line --
rather slow.

Of course, this in no way dimishes the great work of Lars!

kai
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From: Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: is it really worth the time to go from vi to emacs?
Date: 1996/06/30
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