Re: emacs 23 display slow over cable modem

[Stefan Monnier]

> I know I can disable tooltip mode but I don't see how to disable all
> the hover stuff going on.  I think it's too much for remote use.

Indeed "all the hover stuff" is designed with the assumption of a fast
and low-latency access to the X server.

I must say I do not know how to make them work acceptably on a slow
connection.  A poor man's solution is to turn off those features, but as
you say it's not always easy to do it.

Maybe we could provide a configuration variable that just forces Emacs
to ignore all mouse-movement events, as it used to in Emacs-20 (IIRC).
It would work by telling the server not to send it mouse-movement events
(except within the scope of a track-mouse, of course, so that
mouse-drags can provide feedback as is expected nowadays).


        Stefan