Re: fFtT implementation

[Juergen Weigert]

On Dec 15, 05 10:38:26 +0100, Rafal Maszkowski wrote:
> Some time ago I was said that there is one on yahoo or something. Subscribing
> to yahoo list is somewhat complicated and links unfriendly so I have given up
> at some stage. Probably it was http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gnu-screen/ - I
> think I have not seen before the message about stopping the development and
> closing the list.

the yahoo-list is dead and shall remain dead.

> Looks like we are left alone. Could we use
> https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/screen/ for creating a new developers list
> and patches repository? If not I can offer my mailman and FTP site.

Rafal, do you have an account at Savannah?
I suggest, I add you as an administrator for
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/screen/

> But the biggest inconvenience of screen for me is very slow resizing. With 
> some
> twelve screens, 20000 lines of buffer each full resizing (-r vs. -x) takes 
> many
> minutes (I admit that on somewhat slow machine with 467 MHz CPU and 128 MB of
> memory). I have not looked into it yet but I suspect that screen redraws whole
> buffer with new number of columns instead of being somewhat smarter and
> redrawing only last few screen-size bytes and catching up with the rest later.

Screen resizes every single row of your 12x 20000 rows.
That is what make resizing slow.

        cheers,
                Jw.

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