[oi-dev] Whoa! emacs broken? (spaces replace much of what I type)

[Gordon Ross]

OK, it's apparently not emacs (or emacs-gtk, emacs-x).
I just copied over the older emacs-23 (which worked fine in the older
BE) into my latest BE and it shows the same problems running in the
newer BE.

Would it be practical to narrow down the cause of this by trying
different install versions?  I don't mind running some installs, but
I'm not sure how to tell IPS what exactly to install (to get something
other than the latest).



On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> wrote:
> Another interesting clue:  If I type some stuff (easiest test is to
> just type some random stuff in the *scratch* buffer) and see lots of
> missing letters, I can obscure the emacs frame with another window
> (i.e. a terminal) and when I expose emacs again (raise to top) the
> letters are all there.
> This seems like some sort of emacs "repaint" issue.
> Also, it's jittery, like there's some loss of events somewhere,
> whatever events drive updating the frame...
>
> Gordon
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> wrote:
>> Alexander Pyhalov писал 09.12.2015 11:23:
>>>
>>> Hi, Gordon.
>>>
>>> Gordon Ross писал 09.12.2015 05:05:
>>>>
>>>> spoke too soon.  it's still acting crazy with the default font.
>>>> even the blinking cursor leaves spaces much of the time,
>>>> requiring refreshes (CTRL-L) etc.   Ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>> Just tested latest emacs (emacs-no-x11) in Gnome terminal. Don't see this.
>>> Perhaps, it's locale-related? Do you use en_US.UTF-8 locale?
>>>
>>> Does anyone else see this?
>>>
>>
>> Just noticed that you speak about gnu-emacs-gtk. Do you see the same issues
>> in gnu-emacs-x11?
>>
>>
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