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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>:
> Much better now! make xconfig still seems to be the old way (hadn't tried 
> it before)? - At least I get two shades of green. The lighter one is 
> completely unreadable on the silver background. Could I suggest to get rid 
> of the light/dark green distinction altogether, do it like the new 
> menuconfig colors, they are much improved now.

Yeah, that was a typo.  It will work this way in 1.1.2.

> On my Pentium 133S with fastmode I get a more than 2 fold increase in speed 
> and  it feels a lot more usable. Still have to wait between key presses but 
> it is better than before.

Uh oh.  

If you still have to wait I'd better make fastmode disable more stuff :-(.
 
> One general note: scrolling between entries (up/down arrow) seems slower 
> than it should be.

That should be fixed now.  I found a way to recode menuconfig's screen refresh
that will be faster and eliminate the screen flicker.

> Keep up the good work. You are on the right track. (-:

Thanks!
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