Re: future of emacs20

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ucsc.edu>]

|> While there are specific problem areas in emacs 21, mostly related to
|> traffic over the X connection, I think most of those problems can be
|> worked around by tweaking the configuration appropriately (e.g., toolbar
|> too slow? turn off the toolbar!), and I'm not aware of any general
|> slowdown.

Hmm, well, general slowdown is certainly what we saw here. These were
users who carried over their emacs20 configurations to emacs21, which is
not an unreasonable thing to want to do in general, if you've spent a
lot of time tweaking it for the tasks you regularly perform.

Jim