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

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Kaushal.

On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 06:24:43PM +0000, Kaushal Modi wrote:
> Sounds sort of like this issue (
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2016-08/msg00010.html )
> someone else reported on help-gnu-emacs.

> @Alan Do the symptoms there match what you see?

I don't think they do.  The OP on that thread was using a GUI, I'm on a
text terminal.

> FYI I haven't seen that issue happen for me.

Well, at least I've got a workaround, save everything and restart Emacs.

> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:16 PM Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:

> > On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 09:04:55PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 17:39:25 +0000
> > > > Cc: address@hidden
> > > > From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>

> > > > This suggests that Emacs gets "tired" after several hours, whatever
> > > > that might mean.  Perhaps a buffer is getting depleted somehow,
> > > > or something like that.

> > > What buffer did you have in mind?

> > I don't have any particular buffer in mind.  I simply don't know this
> > level of the software at all.  (At least, not yet).

> > Maybe there's some circular buffer somewhere which, when it becomes
> > full, spuriously outputs a space to the screen.  The buffer might well
> > not be in Emacs.  Can a circular buffer gradually (over hours) become
> > smaller?  That seems a bit unlikely.

> > I really haven't much idea - I've reported what I've observed, and I'm
> > speculating.

> -- 

> Kaushal Modi

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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).