bug#7092: 23.1; Dired slow using Emacs remotely

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:28:34 -0400
>> From: Dan Espen <despen@telcordia.com>
>> Cc: 
>> 
>> Moving the pointer around a dired buffer makes Emacs unusable for long      
>> periods of time.  This is true even after disabling tool-tip
>> mode.
>
> Probably because of the mouse highlight (which causes lots of X
> traffic).

I think the diagnosis here sounds correct.  So is there anything here
we can do?  In other words, is this a bug in Emacs or just an inherent
limitation in the X protocol?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas