-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ð thus on Thu, 8 Feb 1996 01:34:24 -0500 (EST), Sammy virtually scripted... Sammy> Sounds like a big project. I wonder how much this would slow the Sammy> mud down, if 2 or 3 people were using the editor simultaneously. Sammy> Full screen redraws would cause some nasty lag. rather nasty. how good is your throughput? Sammy> All the times I've used pine and pico over the net it never occured Sammy> to me that I was sending a lot more packets than were necessary. Sammy> Time to relearn ed :) then again you're dealing with a single connection, via telnet or rlogin (some editors like emacs uses the stty baud setting to optimize screen redraws). when you're dealing with a mud you're dealing with several connections to a single multiplexing process... netrek gets around this via having the client do all the work of processing the information. Sammy> I think circle the circle editor wouldn't be so bad if it just had Sammy> some simple line-editing abilities. No, I'm not volunteering, I Sammy> can't even write a simple ^M remover :) get the GNU readline or else getline and compile it into a client. i believe tf already has it incorporated in, and the new version of tintin does as well. i've made a couple changes into tintin to get around some of the problems people been having with it. namely perl's regexp source has been incorporated in the actions/gag/subs and readline into the interface. d. - -- <<If you're so perfect, try walking on water.>> ~ anonymous scriptor -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBMRpL0oX26urqpgG1AQGt3AQAtJULx9D6J+nwPehgkMWCXpx/Dl+YaoT8 wHPf4Sf+sHDHj1qvrr4DoUp9icm3KGZWMwD0XZ4fpnJogejUY9kkmEtGefGpOcWh tW/k2XqD1pZWG66h7g48bC6kykHGpu3/dkss2w8jI0F6oLZB3MlmtjkRKmvQZRad fGlfLCy5R3U= =dFJq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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