On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 02:26:30PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > Hello -- > > 2008/10/24 Robin Lee Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I'm playing around with vertical split. I'm using Screen > > version 4.00.03jw4 (FAU) 2-May-06 on Debian. > > > > When I have vertical split on, less is slow. *Really* slow. So > > is more. vim is OK. When I say "slow", I mean that when I say > > "less file", it takes ~20 seconds for it to put the first > > screenful of data up. > > > > Any idea what's up? > > It's a known caveat of vertical splits in screen. Screen has to > continually redraw the region and so that slows things down.
I had a giant post written about how vertical splits in emacs and vim are quite fast, and how running vim under a vertical split in screen is also snappy, as opposed to running less, so there *must* be a problem somewhere... And then I realized that when you page down in vim, it redraws its display area once. When you page down in less, it redraws line by line. -_- Holding down j in vim to make it redraw line by line makes everything just as slow as less. So. Can anyone reccomend a less (ha!) stupid pager? more does the same thing, and I can't view man pages like this. less -c mostly does the trick... Except that the initial screen clear to put the cursor at the top line is done the slow way, and hence takes ~30 seconds. "clear ; less -c [file]" works, but I'd love a better suggestion. -Robin -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" -- http://shorl.com/tydruhedufogre http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
