Subject: Re: bug#7092: 23.1; Dired slow using Emacs remotely

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 10:14:31 +0200

> From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Dan Espen <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 01:55:26 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:28:34 -0400
> >> From: Dan Espen <[email-masked]>
> >> Cc: 
> >> 
> >> Moving the pointer around a dired buffer makes Emacs unusable for long      
> >> periods of time.  This is true even after disabling tool-tip
> >> mode.
> >
> > Probably because of the mouse highlight (which causes lots of X
> > traffic).
> 
> I think the diagnosis here sounds correct.  So is there anything here
> we can do?  In other words, is this a bug in Emacs or just an inherent
> limitation in the X protocol?

Maybe we should have a feature whereby mouse highlight is ignored, for
those who use a slow X connection.

But is it indeed the case that X traffic caused by mouse highlight is
the culprit here?