be carried out at the same time:
1) If you don't need X Input Methods (XIM) for entering text in some
- language you use, you can improve performance on WAN links by
- configuring Emacs with option `--without-xim'. Configuring Emacs
- without XIM does not affect the use of Emacs' own input methods, which
- are part of the Leim package.
+ language you use, you can improve performance on WAN links by using
+ the X resource useXIM to turn off use of XIM. This does not affect
+ the use of Emacs' own input methods, which are part of the Leim
+ package.
2) If the connection is very slow, you might also want to consider
switching off scroll bars, menu bar, and tool bar.
-noatomsfile -nowinattr -cheaterrors -cheatevents
Note that the -nograbcmap option is known to cause problems.
For more about lbxproxy, see:
- http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/lbxproxy.1.html
+ http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/lbxproxy.1.html
* Getting a Meta key on the FreeBSD console
Windows uses UTF-16 encoding to deal with multilingual text (text not
encodable in the `system codepage') in the clipboard. To deal with
this, load the library `utf-16' and use `set-selection-coding-system'
-to set the clipboard coding system to `utf-16-le-dos'. This won't
-cope with Far Eastern (`CJK') text; if necessary, install the Mule-UCS
-package (see etc/MORE.STUFF), whose `utf-16-le-dos' coding system does
-encode a lot of CJK characters.
+to set the clipboard coding system to `utf-16-le-with-signature-dos'.
The %b specifier for format-time-string does not produce abbreviated
month names with consistent widths for some locales on some versions
* The `oc-unicode' package doesn't work with Emacs 21.
This package tries to define more private charsets than there are free
-slots now. If the built-in Unicode/UTF-8 support is insufficient,
-e.g. if you need more CJK coverage, use the current Mule-UCS package.
-Any files encoded as emacs-mule using oc-unicode won't be read
-correctly by Emacs 21.
+slots now. The current built-in Unicode support is actually more
+flexible. (Use option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' if you need CJK
+support.) Files encoded as emacs-mule using oc-unicode aren't
+generally read correctly by Emacs 21.
* Using epop3.el package causes Emacs to signal an error.