Re: Emacs 25.1 RC2 - sporadic display errors on Linux virtual terminal.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Eli.

On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 07:35:49PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 15:59:27 +0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>

> > On the Emacs 25.1-rc2, I'm seeing worrying display anomalies on a Linux
> > virtual terminal.

> Are you saying this happens only with that one build of Emacs, but not
> with other versions?  Because it sounds like a system-wide problem
> that has nothing to do with Emacs.

I've not noticed it happening in any other build.

I've discovered I can trigger the problem by repeatedly hitting two
adjacent keys "at once" in the left hand, then the same in the right
hand as fast as possible.

> If you open a termscript file and then type, do you see the missing
> characters in the termscript file, which means they were sent to the
> screen?

No, the termscript file contained what I typed, not what I saw on the
screen.

I'll see if I can create the problem in other versions of Emacs.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).