Grant: > On 1/13/21 2:56 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: ... > > Doing text work in X is s l u g g i s h. Changing from one > > application to another, which would be achieved by, say Alt-F4 on a > > console takes more key sequences in X, and is less than instantaneous.
I'm using fvwm set up with 9 virtual screens and so I can swith between them with ctr-arrow, fast enought for me. ... > > On an Emacs session, in three columns on a console, I can display > > 195 consecutive lines of a source file simultaneously. ... I get 260x97 chars in emacs on a 1600x1280 display. With three columns, w82,82,83chars, I get 3x95=285 lines of text. /// Alan, how do you set up your console (I'd like to try) ? Regards, /Karl Hammar
