Re: Relevance of `baud-rate' in the 2020s?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:09:35 -0400
> 
> > In my remote corner of the world, I sometimes have periods of time
> > that Internet crawls at 3KB/sec.
> 
> That sounds equivalent to the default value of `baud-rate` (19200).

No, because when this happens, packets get lost.  Otherwise, how could
a fast connection suddenly become so slow?

> > If I need to use Emacs on a remote machine during that time, this
> > "obsolete" mode is very useful, because SSH sends more than just the
> > characters I type.
> 
> What do you mean by "mode", exactly?
> Do you mean you (setq baud-rate 2400)?

No, I mean isearch-slow-terminal-mode.