Re: Emacs starts with current screen contents in its display buffer

[Segundo Bob]

Thanks for the suggestion, which is fruitfully modified slightly.

I started a terminal in full screen mode and used it to start emacs from 
the command line.  This produced a emacs display that was uncluttered 
enough for me to see that I get many warning when I start emacs:

Loading 00debian-vars...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)...
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)...
Error while loading 50dictionaries-common: Symbol's value as variable is 
void: debian-aspell-only-dictionary-alist
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50emacs-goodies-el.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50pylint.el (source)...
Loading pylint...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50pylint.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50python-docutils.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50yasnippet.el (source)...
`flet' is an obsolete macro (as of 24.3); use either `cl-flet' or `cl-letf'.
(lambda (field1 field2) ...) quoted with ' rather than with #'
`flet' is an obsolete macro (as of 24.3); use either `cl-flet' or `cl-letf'.
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50yasnippet.el (source)...done
Loading delsel...done
Loading linum...done
Loading recentf...done
Loading /home/bob07/.recentf...done
Cleaning up the recentf list...done (0 removed)
Loading /home/ldi/emacs/bob-utils.el (source)...done
Loading /home/ldi/emacs/adaptive-wrap-prefix.el (source)...done
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Package assoc is obsolete!
Type C-x 1 to delete the help window, C-M-v to scroll help.
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But this doesn't make emacs usable.  Nothing is ever erased from the 
screen.  Information is overwritten with new information, but when a new 
buffer is displayed the text beyond the text in the new buffer is still 
displayed.

I have no idea which problem above to attack first.
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Segundo Bob
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