Re: set time_inc= ?
On 28May2008 09:56, Wilkinson, Alex <alex.wilkinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| Ok so in the manual time_inc says:
|
| "this variable controls the frequency with which progress updates are
| displayed. It suppresses updates less than ``time_inc'' milliseconds
apart. This
| can improve throughput on systems with slow terminals, or when running
mutt on a
| remote system."
|
| Ok so what is meant by "progress updates" ?
Progress doing time consuming stuff. Like opening (large) mailboxes,
sending or receiving data, etc. I have this:
set time_inc=250
set net_inc=1
set read_inc=10
set write_inc=10
| I'm still trying to work out what time_inc gives me :(
| AFAICT with time_inc=10 included in my $HOME/.mutt/settings I see no change,
yet
| I see people on this list raving about it ? What am I missing ?
"time_inc=10" is 10ms - 1/100th of a second. That is so much smaller than
human reaction time as to make no difference - you can't visually tell it
from no time_inc at all.
I went with 250ms, fast enough to give "rapid looking" update while still
placing a cap on how much updating gets done (i.e. preventing a slow net
link slowing up the operation if the amount of progress reporting is too
verbose).
Cheers,
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