Re: Display slowness that is painful

[Miles Bader]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm confused.  How does it make sense to display characters in \XXX
> format instead?  Both methods produce gibberish (as one would expect
> of a binary file).  So we might as well choose the gibberish that
> redisplays faster.

Because gibberish with a big "Gibberish" label (which is sort of what
the octal syntax is) is a lot more presentable, and looks less like
Emacs just fucked something up.

-miles
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