Re: Why I may not use emacs any more for coding

[Richard Stallman]

    >> effect this transition with such speed that my fingers need not pause
    >> after the ESC key is pressed before I begin my input of navigation
    >> keystrokes, whereas under an xterm if attempt this transition, it
    >> seems (based on observation only) that this takes AT LEAST 500
    >> milliseconds --- easily enough time to enter a half-dozen navigation
    >> commands (up two lines and over four words: 'kkwwww').  Over the
    >> course of a typical edit cycle, this interruption has become more and
    >> more intolerable to me.

Is the annoyance limited to a delay in seeing the result?
Or does it execute your subsequent commands wrong?