[h-e-w] Re: NTEmacs, producing a file of "\xff".

[Raymond Zeitler]

A mode that causes massive slowdowns for me is Ispell.  Replaying macros
while Ispell is active is a tedious affair.

I'm not familiar with the Flash format.  What you're doing looks kind of
cool.  Do you have a mode associated with XFF?  Can you switch to
Fundamental mode (M-x fu)?

You can change the radix of quoted values.  The following is from the
help for quoted-insert, which is bound C-q:

"The variable `read-quoted-char-radix' specifies the radix for this
feature; set it to 10 or 16 to use decimal or hex instead of octal."

HTH

-Ray
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Date: 17 Feb 2004 21:48:22 -0500
From: Bill Pringlemeir <address@hidden>
Subject: [h-e-w] NTEmacs, producing a file of "\xff".
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"GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt4.0.1381) of 2002-03-19 on BILL"

If I try to create a file of "\xff", emacs becomes very slow!  For
example, the following keys "<Esc> 5 2 4 2 8 8 <C-Q> 2 5 5 <return>"
will start to consume an enormous amount of CPU time.  It is next to
impossible to move around in the file (or do anything).

I was trying to create a "blank" flash image.  I was rather astounded
at the amount of CPU time this took.  I think that this is actually
"\xad", because emacs is using octal and not decimals for quoted
values.  Why is it so slow?

Regards,
Bill Pringlemeir.