[screen-devel] [bug #38212] Cursor jumps around while typing in Emacs

[anonymous]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?38212>

                 Summary: Cursor jumps around while typing in Emacs
                 Project: GNU Screen
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Thu 31 Jan 2013 05:11:11 PM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.0.3
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
           Work Required: None

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Details:

This bug was also reported as a potential bug in Emacs, but it may be a bug in
screen, or both.  In the Emacs bug-report list, I have reported it as:

   bug#13590: 23.4; Cursor jumps around while typing

I'll quote a part of the description here, but only a part, because the
overall description was written relevantly in Emacs.  Note that I have an
addendum to the original report, which basically says I forgot to mention I
was using Emacs under screen, and that Emacs *seems* to work fine when not
under screen (but I only did very limited testing).

So here is the quote:
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I am currently trying to disable "Smart Tabs" for Python.

I start with:

   emacs -nw ~/aoeu.py

Right off the bat, if I try to type

   def hello, world!

I get the following:

   deo h!ll , world

with the initial "de" highlighted in Cyan, "o h" and "ll" in blue, and the
rest in grey.

If I then type "M-x whitespace-mode", the text *sometimes* reappears as normal
text.

Also, if I try to open a file, and type "C-x C-f" and then "~/.git[TAB]" (or
something similar), the tab completion jumps back over the text--indeed, if I
repeatedly backspace, I'll even backspace over the highlighed status line.

I *don't* think it's a problem with "python-mode", because I have had this
problem before, when trying to edit "~/.gitconfig".  Since I was working with
a lot of colors, I suspected that the problem involved funny escape
characters.




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