[BRLTTY] brltty5.2 alpine2.11 cursor tracking

Aura Kelloniemi spammi.helevetti at nbl.fi
Mon Sep 14 15:22:10 EDT 2015


Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:

 > [quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2015/09/14 at 21:56 +0300]

>>So, here are the new results. Now I tested with emacs with up to four windows
>>all updating the mode line continuously. I also tested with elinks which also
>>has a "clock on status line" feature.
>>
>>Values 0 and 1 are too small - there is lots of screen flicker. I could not
>>notice any difference between values 2 and 3. Even emacs with four windows
>>displaying a clock on their mode lines works, even through ssh.

 > Okay, thanks. Just to be sure, I'll set it to 5. Do you think that's 
 > reasonable?

I think. I can imagine that this helps with cursor tracking problems when a
slow telnet or ssh link is used.

>>I also tried values 5, 10, 20, 40 and 100, but could not get top to behave
>>well. 

 > How did they behave poorly?



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