Re: Monitoring IO

[Grant Edwards <grante visi com>]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:28:13PM +0100, Julien Schmitt wrote:

> For my terminal I empty my text widget when I find there is too much in
> it... It's not a problem, is it ?

I'd like to keep a maximum number of lines of scrollback, and
constantly counting the lines and deleting the extra ones
sounded like a lot of overhead at high baud rates if it's done
in the read handler, and I haven't gotten around to adding a
background task to do it..

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Grant Edwards
grante visi com